Mortimer Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · South Shields, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.544 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mortimer 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 30 January 2024. South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Mortimer 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 | 0.544 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
- Free school meal eligibility is 13.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 38.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in South Tyneside.
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 0.544 miles, nearer than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 51 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 54% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 1% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Mortimer Road, South Shields, NE34 0RW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 588 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 January 2024
Strengths
- “The school is a calm and purposeful place to be.”
- “Everyone shows high levels of respect to others.”
- “For example, older pupils listen to younger pupils read.”
To improve
- “Play during lunchtime is less restrained and behaviour is not quite as good as at other times of the day.”
- “In a small number of subjects, the essential knowledge that pupils need is not sharply identified.”
- “Pupils struggle to connect learning and remember what they have learned in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 March 2024 (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) | 54% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 51 offers in total, 49 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.
- Ashley Academy 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stanhope Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Laygate Community School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ridgeway Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Harton Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published