West View Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Hartlepool
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hartlepool Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
West View Primary School is a primary school in Hartlepool for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 March 2023. Hartlepool has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
West View 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
- For Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, as at 23 of the 29 other Hartlepool primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- 58.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hartlepool is 33%.
- For Reception 2026, 39 first-choice applications for 39 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 5th highest of 30 Hartlepool primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 49% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hartlepool schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Davison Drive, Hartlepool, TS24 9BP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Hartlepool
- Pupils on roll
- 460 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 58.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 March 2023
Strengths
- “School sweatshirts are worn with pride.”
- “Displays around school remind pupils to believe in themselves with positive statements like ‘I can be anything I want to be’.”
- “Pupils know who to talk to if they have concerns.”
To improve
- “Following the pandemic restrictions, many pupils returned to school with significant gaps in their knowledge, especially in reading and writing.”
- “In a few subjects, such as science and geography, leaders are still developing this curriculum structure.”
- “Key knowledge in these subjects is sometimes not precisely identified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 May 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) | 49% | 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: 39 first-preference applications, 39 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 primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Hartlepool.
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Throston Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jesmond Gardens Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barnard Grove Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Clavering Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Brougham Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lynnfield Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published