Glynwood Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Glynwood Community Primary School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 12 November 2024. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Glynwood Community 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 57 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 21.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.6 across 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
- Glynwood Gardens, Gateshead, NE9 5SY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 423 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 12 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy learning at Glynwood Primary School.”
- “Pupils understand that the school’s values help them to be resilient.”
- “Adults are consistent in the approach they take to support pupils to behave well.”
To improve
- “The majority of pupils benefit from a good quality of education, although this is not reflected in provisional outcomes for key stage 2 in 2024.”
- “Leaders recognise that the previous mathematics curriculum did not support pupils to achieve well enough.”
- “The revised mathematics curriculum is improving pupils’ mathematical knowledge, but these changes are not reflected in outcomes in 2024.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (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) | 56% | 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: 57 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 57 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.
- Kells Lane Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Larkspur Community Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Carr Hill Community Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakfield Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oakfield Infant School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Oswald's Catholic Primary, Wrekenton 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Windy Nook Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published