Rockcliffe First School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–9 · Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.45 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Rockcliffe First School is a primary school in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside for ages 3–9 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Rockcliffe First 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 | 0.45 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.45 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- 7.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside.
- The school has 24.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20 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
- Grafton Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 2NR
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 244 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love attending this school.”
- “From the moment they arrive, they are welcomed into the ‘Rockcliffe family’.”
- “Pupils grow in confidence and learn to be considerate of others.”
To improve
- “However, a few foundation subjects need further development.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not get enough opportunities to revisit previous learning.”
- “Consequently, some pupils struggle to remember content they have covered.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, 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.
- Cullercoats Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marine Park First School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Monkhouse Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Coquet Park First School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Preston Grange Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published