Southridge First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–9 · Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
6.21 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Southridge First School is a primary school in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside for ages 3–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 July 2022. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Southridge 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 | 6.21 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2025's last distance offered was 6.21 miles, 3rd longest of the 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle figure 1.94 miles).
- In Reception 2026, 40 first-choice applications for 47 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 24.3 pupils per teacher, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside is 20.8.
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
- Cranleigh Place, Beaumont Park Estate, Whitley Bay, NE25 9UD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 321 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are kind, considerate and well-mannered.”
- “They enjoy school and say that they feel safe and happy.”
- “Pupils like their teachers because they are helpful and look after them.”
To improve
- “However, some foundation subjects would benefit from a more precise use of assessment so that the next steps in the curriculum accurately match pupils’ needs.”
- “However, this is inconsistent.”
- “In some subjects, such as history and design and technology, teachers do not have an accurate picture of what pupils know and can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 40 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 40 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.
- Whitley Lodge First School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Coquet Park First School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marine Park First School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Langley First School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- South Wellfield First School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published