Westoe Crown Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · South Shields, South Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.872 miles
Published by South Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Westoe Crown Primary School is a primary school in South Shields, South Tyneside for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. South Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Westoe Crown 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 | 3.872 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's last distance offered, 3.872 miles, was the longest of 41 South Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.72 miles).
- Reception last distances have swung sharply, most from 2023 to 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 90 first-choice applications for 90 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% 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
- Sea Winnings Way, South Shields, NE33 3NS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- South Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 636 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 October 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s vision of ‘Expect the best, achieve success’ is clear from the first moment of arrival in the school.”
- “Pupils are happy, polite and considerate.”
- “They demonstrate exemplary behaviour and attitudes.”
To improve
- “The school has identified a small number of foundation curriculum subjects that require further review.”
- “The curriculums in these subjects are not as well established as others.”
- “This impacts on pupils’ ability to acquire the knowledge and key concepts set out in the curriculum long-term design.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 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: 90 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 90 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.
- Marine Park Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bede's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Laygate Community School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hadrian Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Sea View Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Mortimer Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, South Shields 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashley Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published