Bill Quay Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.99 miles
Published by Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bill Quay Primary School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 10 March 2022. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bill Quay Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.99 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.99 miles away, the 2nd longest of 7 Gateshead primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 32 first-choice applications for 30 offers, with 30 offers going to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families not offered a place.
- Results 2024/25: 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Davidson Road, Bill Quay, Gateshead, NE10 0UN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 252 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 10 March 2022
Strengths
- “Bill Quay Primary School is at the heart of the community.”
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this warm and welcoming school family.”
- “Most pupils come to school each day and behave well.”
To improve
- “At times, errors in pupils' letter and number formation hinder their ability to check the accuracy of their work.”
- “However, gaps remain for some older pupils.”
- “Reminders for pupils to hold pencils efficiently or to form letters and numbers correctly are not as timely or consistent as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 72% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Gateshead.
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School, Pelaw 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wardley Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lingey House Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Drive Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- White Mere Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brandling Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Roman Road Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published