Rowlands Gill Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Rowlands Gill, Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.61 miles
Published by Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Rowlands Gill Community Primary School is a primary school in Rowlands Gill, Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 June 2023. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Rowlands Gill 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 | 2.61 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Its Reception 2026 last distance offered, 2.61 miles, was the longest of 7 Gateshead primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 0.80 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- Of the 63 Reception 2026 applications, 8 came from families living outside Gateshead, and 0 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
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
- Dominines Close, Rowlands Gill, NE39 2PP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 June 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have worked hard to bring about sustainable improvements since the school was judged to require improvement.”
- “They have created a welcoming, calm and inclusive school where expectations are high for all pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “As a result, pupils enjoy coming to school and feel safe.”
To improve
- “In some lessons, the tasks that teachers give pupils do not enable them to learn key knowledge because they are not sharply focused on what it is that pupils need to learn and remember.”
- “Where tasks are not well designed, pupils’ attitudes to learning are not as positive, but this does not affect their behaviour.”
- “However, these expectations are not fully realised in practice.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 July 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) | 52% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Highfield Community Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, Highfield 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- High Spen Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Byermoor 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- West Lane Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkhead Community Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Clover Hill Community Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Whickham Parochial Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published