Hadrian Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · South Shields, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.223 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hadrian Primary School is a primary school in South Shields, South Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2022. South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Hadrian 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 2026 | 0.223 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 0.223 miles, nearer than in 2025 and 5th shortest of 41 South Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 27 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 23.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 47.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in South Tyneside.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other South Tyneside schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Baring Street, Hadrian Primary School, South Shields, NE33 2BB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 261 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils say they enjoy coming to school every day.”
- “One pupil, echoing the views of others, commented that ‘teachers are the best because you can talk to them and they care for us.”
- “The care shown by staff helps pupils to feel safe.”
To improve
- “Some subjects, such as music and physical education (PE), are more developed than others.”
- “In some curriculum subjects, pupils do not have strong knowledge of subject-specific ideas.”
- “However, they cannot link their knowledge to mountains in different parts of the world.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 December 2022 (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) | 56% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 27 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 South Tyneside.
- Marine Park Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Westoe Crown Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Laygate Community School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mortimer Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Stanhope Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashley Academy 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sea View Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published