Harlow Green Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Harlow Green Community Primary School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 February 2023. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Harlow Green Community 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 55 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Harlow Green Lane, Gateshead, NE9 7TB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 375 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils make a great start to their education at Harlow Green Community Primary School.”
- “Their experience matches the school’s vision of ‘growing happy, healthy and successful, together’.”
- “All pupils receive a warm welcome and are quick to settle into routines.”
To improve
- “The COVID-19 pandemic led to gaps in pupils’ mathematical knowledge.”
- “In some year groups, these gaps remain.”
- “Pupils in Years 3 and 4 faced significant disruption to their learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 March 2023 (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) | 64% | 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: 55 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 55 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 Gateshead.
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Harlow Green 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakfield Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oakfield Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Oswald's Catholic Primary, Wrekenton 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Glynwood Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kells Lane Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Larkspur Community Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fell Dyke Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published