Waterville Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.69 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Waterville Primary School is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 February 2025. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Waterville 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 | 1.69 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 there were 22 first-choice applications for 23 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 60.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 48.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
- There are 14.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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
- Waterville Road, North Shields, NE29 6SL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 60.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 February 2025
Strengths
- “Staff and pupils are proud to be part of this warm and welcoming school.”
- “Staff are aspirational and have high expectations for pupils.”
- “As a result, pupils achieve well by the time they leave the school at the end of key stage 2.”
To improve
- “The school has not clearly identified what key knowledge pupils must learn in these subjects.”
- “This means that sometimes the teaching of the curriculum and the checks made on how well pupils are learning are not precise enough.”
- “As a result, pupils do not build new learning effectively so they know and remember more over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 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) | 57% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 22 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.
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Riverside Primary School 0.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Spring Gardens Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Collingwood Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Percy Main Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- King Edward Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published