Valley View Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Jarrow, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.346 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Valley View Primary School is a primary school in Jarrow, South Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 18 March 2025. South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Valley View 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 | 0.346 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
- Reception 2026 had 46 first-choice applications for 27 offers, 1.7 first choices per offer and the highest of 41 South Tyneside primary schools.
- All 27 Reception 2026 offers went to first-choice families, and 19 first-choice families (41%) were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.346 miles away, 9th shortest of 41 South Tyneside primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% 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
- Valley View, Jarrow, NE32 5QY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 251 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 18 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at Valley View Primary are superb ambassadors for their school.”
- “They embody the school’s aim of allowing all to thrive ‘educationally, socially, morally and culturally’.”
- “Pupils are polite and considerate.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, pupils’ attainment in mathematics did not meet leaders’ high expectations in 2024.”
- “Pupils did not achieve as highly as they could.”
- “Gaps in pupils’ mathematics knowledge were not identified and closed with sufficient swiftness.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 May 2025 (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) | 70% | 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: 46 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.
- Bede Burn Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Jarrow 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Jarrow Cross CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Simonside Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Hebburn Lakes Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St James' Catholic Primary School, Hebburn 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Jarrow 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published