St Edward's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.795 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Edward's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Middlesbrough for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 December 2023. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St Edward's Catholic 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 | 1.795 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 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
- The last child offered a Reception 2026 place lived 1.795 miles away, the 11th longest of 41 Middlesbrough primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.92 miles).
- Reception distances swung most sharply from 2023 to 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 saw 44 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 11.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 47% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Middlesbrough.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Middlesbrough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Eastbourne Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, TS5 6QS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 398 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 December 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils who attend this school speak proudly of being part of the ‘St Edward’s family’.”
- “The school teaches pupils that all are equal in the eyes of God through their Catholic ethos.”
- “Pupils therefore know that difference should be respected.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the case for all of their subjects.”
- “There is continued work to support pupils to remember the content they are learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 February 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) | 61% | 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: 44 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 44 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 Middlesbrough.
- Linthorpe Community Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Beech Grove Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Green Lane Primary Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ayresome Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Newham Bridge Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Archibald Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published