Biddick Hall Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · South Shields, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.642 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Biddick Hall Infants' School is a primary school in South Shields, South Tyneside for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 November 2022. South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Biddick Hall Infants' 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 | 2.642 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.642 miles away, 7th longest of 41 South Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.72 miles).
- The 2026 Reception figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance, and further from the school than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 41 first-choice applications for 41 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 50.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 43.3% 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
- Galsworthy Road, Biddick Hall County Infant School, South Shields, NE34 9JD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 219 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 50.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 November 2022
Strengths
- “The three school rules of ‘stay safe, show respect and achieve’ underpin everything that happens in this school.”
- “The ‘Biddick way’ is embedded in every classroom.”
- “Pupils talk about the importance of treating everyone equally.”
To improve
- “Some subjects are more developed than others.”
- “Some activities that pupils complete in mathematics do not match the learning objective of the lesson.”
- “Similarly, in subjects such as history and geography, activities do not always match the subject being taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 41 first-preference applications, 41 offers in total, 41 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.
- Biddick Hall Junior School 0.3 mi Not judged
- Monkton Infants' School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Church of England Academy (South Shields) 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Monkton Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Lord Blyton Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Forest View Primary 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published