Mount Pleasant Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Darlington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.811 miles
Published by Darlington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mount Pleasant Primary School is a primary school in Darlington for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2022. Darlington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Mount Pleasant 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 | 0.811 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
- Of its pupils, 48.6% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 12.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Darlington.
- For Reception 2026, the last distance offered was 0.811 miles, the 2nd shortest of the 11 Darlington primary schools with a published last distance, and further than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 76% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Darlington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Newton Lane, Mount Pleasant Primary School, Darlington, DL3 9HE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Darlington
- Pupils on roll
- 259 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at Mount Pleasant Primary School.”
- “There is a strong sense of community.”
- “Pupils’ behaviour is exceptional.”
To improve
- “However, activities to support the teacherled sessions are not sufficiently targeted to what individual pupils need to know.”
- “Opportunities to develop children’s knowledge and skills are sometimes missed.”
- “Leaders rightly identified that pupils do not have enough opportunity to develop their skills in debating and discussing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 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) | 76% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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 Darlington.
- West Park Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Mowden Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Mowden Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Reid Street Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Abbey Junior School 1.3 mi School remains Good
- Abbey Infants' School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published