St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Chester le Street, 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 Infant School, Birtley is a primary school in Chester le Street, Gateshead for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 October 2024. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley 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 Reception place in 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 saw 15 first-choice applications for 15 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place; 1.0 first choices per offer was the 8th highest of 63 Gateshead primary schools.
- Free school meal eligibility is 16.2% of pupils, against a middle figure of 28% across 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
- Mitchell Street, Birtley, Chester le Street, DH3 1LU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 68 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 October 2024
Strengths
- “The school has high expectations for its pupils.”
- “The school has recently redesigned its curriculum to support pupils to move seamlessly into the next stage of their education at the end of Year 2.”
- “The content of the curriculum is ambitious.”
To improve
- “However, this is not used to consistent effect.”
- “On occasions, some pupils struggle to recall the essential knowledge in their current topic.”
- “However, there are times when staff do not address pupils’ mistakes and errors.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 15 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 15 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.
- St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Birtley 0.4 mi Not judged
- Ravensworth Terrace Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Birtley East Community Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Portobello Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barley Mow Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kibblesworth Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Harlow Green 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Harlow Green Community Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published