Riverside Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.63 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Riverside Primary School is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Riverside 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 | 0.63 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 59% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
- Reception 2025's last distance offered was 0.63 miles, 6th shortest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (this one included); middle figure 1.94 miles.
- For Reception 2026 there were 17 first-choice applications for 17 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 70.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 51.1% 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
- Minton Lane, North Shields, NE29 6DQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 148 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 70.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Riverside Primary School.”
- “They have warm and positive relationships with staff.”
- “This helps to make pupils feel safe.”
To improve
- “However, some curriculum areas do not have clear building blocks of learning.”
- “This means that pupils do not build up strong and secure subject knowledge in these curriculum areas.”
- “Some pupils do not benefit from these activities fully because they do not attend school regularly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2024 (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) | 59% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 17 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.
- Waterville Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, North Shields 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Collingwood Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Percy Main Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Spring Gardens Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitehouse Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published