Kings Priory School
All-through · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–18 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
6.41 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Year 7 2025: 7.12 mi
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Kings Priory School is an all-through school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 4–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2024. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2025 entry.
Kings Priory 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 2025 | 6.41 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 7.12 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 2026 Reception entry had 112 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 90 offers went to first-choice families, and 22 first-choice families (20%) were not offered a place.
- In 2025 the last distance offered was 6.41 miles for Reception and 7.12 miles for Year 7.
- A level students in 2024/25 averaged grade B- (England B-), with average progress from GCSE to A level.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Tyneside schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Huntington Place, Tynemouth, North Shields, NE30 4RF
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 1,549 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 27 June 2024
Strengths
- “Kings Priory School has very high academic standards.”
- “The school is ambitious for all of its pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “The number of pupils in key stage 4 who study the English Baccalaureate suite of subjects is well above the national average.”
To improve
- “However, there is a small number of pupils who do not engage in lessons as fully or as positively as other pupils do.”
- “However, a small number of pupils in the secondary phase are not consistently respectful of some protected characteristics.”
- “This leads to some pupils being made to feel uncomfortable.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2024 (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) | 82% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 74% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 57.1 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 112 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 90 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 80 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 39 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in North Tyneside.
- Southlands School 0.9 mi Good
- Marden Bridge Middle School 1.7 mi Improved significantly
- Monkseaton Coastal School 2.0 mi Good
- Woodlawn School 2.2 mi School remains Good
- Valley Gardens Middle School 2.6 mi Not judged
- Silverdale School 3.0 mi Not judged
- Wellfield Middle School 3.0 mi School remains Good
- Moorbridge 3.5 mi Not judged