Backworth Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.63 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Backworth Park Primary School is a primary school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Backworth Park 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
- For 2025 Reception entry, the last child offered a place lived 0.63 miles away, the 6th shortest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 54 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 38 offers went to first-choice families and 16 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% 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
- Hotspur North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE27 0FZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 342 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 27 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this welcoming school community.”
- “They feel valued and appreciate the opportunities to make their school an even better place to learn.”
- “Pupils achieve well at this school.”
To improve
- “Leaders’ analysis of pupils’ achievement identified weaknesses in pupils’ exposure to a broad range of texts.”
- “However, in handwriting, teaching does not build on what pupils have learned previously as well as it could.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 March 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) | 73% | 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: 54 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 38 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.
- Holystone Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Shiremoor Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Amberley Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Wellfield First School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bailey Green Primary School 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Forest Hall Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ivy Road Primary School 1.7 mi Inadequate Last distance published
- St Marys Catholic Primary School, Forest Hall 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published