Marine Park First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–9 · Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.99 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Marine Park 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 10 May 2022. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Marine Park 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 | 2.99 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.99 miles away, the 17th longest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance.
- There were 58 first-choice applications for 59 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 5.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside is 10.3%.
- There are 22.9 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
- Park Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 1LT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–9
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 476 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 May 2022
Strengths
- “They love coming to Marine Park First School.”
- “Pupils feel welcomed and cared for by all the staff.”
- “A sense of belonging is fostered by pupils being part of a ‘family group’.”
To improve
- “A very small number of pupils feel that they have been impacted by discrimination from other pupils.”
- “On a small number of occasions, the design of some learning activities limits pupils' opportunities to deepen and extend their knowledge.”
- “There remain a small number of subjects where these checks are not as consistent as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 58 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.
- Coquet Park First School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rockcliffe First School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitley Lodge First School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southridge First School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cullercoats Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published