Cullercoats Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.37 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Cullercoats Primary School is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 16 February 2022. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Cullercoats 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 2025 | 2.37 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2025: the last child offered a place lived 2.37 miles away, the 22nd longest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.94 miles).
- 10.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside is 15.7%.
- Reception 2026 had 53 first-choice applications for 54 offers; 52 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 67% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Tyneside schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Marden Avenue, Cullercoats, North Shields, NE30 4PB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 409 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 16 February 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils say that they love being in school.”
- “They say that other pupils are ‘friendly, kind, understanding and helpful’.”
- “They know how to keep themselves safe.”
To improve
- “However, the essential knowledge pupils need has not been identified in all curriculum subjects, for example in history.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 April 2022 (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) | 67% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 52 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 North Tyneside.
- Rockcliffe First School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Monkhouse Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Marine Park First School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Preston Grange Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King Edward Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published