St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · North Shields, North Tyneside
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.71 miles
Published by North Tyneside Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats is a primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. North Tyneside has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Cullercoats 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 | 3.71 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 11.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Tyneside is 15.7%.
- Reception 2025: the last child offered a place lived 3.71 miles away, the 8th longest of 55 North Tyneside primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.94 miles).
- In 2024/25, 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 18% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Farringdon Road, Cullercoats, North Shields, NE30 3EY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- North Tyneside
- Pupils on roll
- 185 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this caring and inclusive school.”
- “Parents comment positively about the ‘family feel’ of the school and how it is part of the local community.”
- “Pupils’ behaviour reflects one of the school’s key teachings of ‘treat each other as you want to be treated’.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes they do not choose the best activities to do this within the lesson, which means some gaps in pupils’ knowledge are not identified or addressed in a timely manner.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 April 2025 (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.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in North Tyneside.
- Monkhouse Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Cullercoats Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Preston Grange Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School, Whitley Bay 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Appletree Gardens First School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rockcliffe First School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Langley First School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- King Edward Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published