Kells Lane Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.81 miles
Published by Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kells Lane Primary School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 June 2022. Gateshead and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Kells Lane 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 | 0.81 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.81 miles away, the 3rd longest of 7 Gateshead primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.80 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further than in 2025 and in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 had 64 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families and 7 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 14% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Kells Lane, Low Fell, Gateshead, NE9 5HX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 453 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 June 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Kells Lane Primary School.”
- “They have high expectations for pupils to achieve academically and socially.”
- “There are caring relationships throughout the school.”
To improve
- “However, some leaders do not have a clear understanding of how their subject is planned and taught in the early years.”
- “However, the school’s end-of-unit assessments do not precisely judge the knowledge pupils have been taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (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) | 62% | 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: 64 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Glynwood Community Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Oakfield Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oakfield Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carr Hill Community Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Larkspur Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harlow Green Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Kelvin Grove Community Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published