Monkhouse Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 5–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.46 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Monkhouse Primary School is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 5–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 September 2023. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Monkhouse 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 | 1.46 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 1.46 miles from the school, the 23rd shortest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle figure 1.94 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 87% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%).
- That 2024/25 result was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside that have results.
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
- Wallington Avenue, North Shields, NE30 3SH
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 215 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Monkhouse Primary School enjoy learning.”
- “The school’s values are at the centre of school life.”
- “Values such as courage and resilience support pupils to take risks, to do more and achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects in the wider curriculum, the series of lessons is not clearly sequenced.”
- “This leads to assessments of pupils’ learning and follow-up lessons being less precise.”
- “Where this happens, some pupils cannot recall fully what they have been previously taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 2023 (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) | 87% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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 Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cullercoats Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King Edward Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Preston Grange Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Rockcliffe First School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published