St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 27 September 2023. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 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
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 62% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gateshead schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 1LR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 27 September 2023
Strengths
- “Staff, school leaders and trust leaders are hugely ambitious for pupils.”
- “Pupils learn well as a result of a continually improving, well-taught curriculum.”
- “Pupils are building impressive knowledge in a range of subjects.”
To improve
- “In these areas, pupils can recall what they have been taught in the past, but not to the same impressive degree as in more established subjects.”
- “The school has adopted similar approaches to curriculum design in key stage 1, but teachers here have not had the same level of training to support its implementation.”
- “However, the early years curriculum is not sufficiently aligned to the deep knowledge that pupils are building in subsequent years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 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) | 62% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 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 Gateshead.
- Caedmon Community Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- South Street Community Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Brighton Avenue Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Kelvin Grove Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bede Community Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published