Percy Main Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.50 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Percy Main Primary School is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 March 2022. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Percy Main 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 | 0.50 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.50 miles away, 4th shortest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.94 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; all 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 54.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 48.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
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
- Nelson Terrace, Percy Main, North Shields, NE29 6JA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 205 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 54.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 March 2022
Strengths
- “Relationships are at the heart of the school.”
- “All pupils are warmly welcomed and included.”
- “They have a secure sense of belonging to the school community.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils in key stage 2 still have gaps in their basic knowledge and skills that staff have not acted quickly enough to close.”
- “The impact of this work is more evident in some subjects than others.”
- “The teaching of writing has been strengthened, but staff do not consistently check carefully enough that pupils' spelling, use of capital letters and letter formation is correct.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 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) | 52% | 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: 31 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 North Tyneside.
- Riverside Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Collingwood Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stephenson Memorial Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Denbigh Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Waterville Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Spring Gardens Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published