St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.32 miles
Published by Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 February 2025. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell 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 | 0.32 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 36 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, so 7 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- 2024/25: 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 23% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.32 miles away, the shortest of the 7 Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead is 37.2%.
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
- Dryden Road, Low Fell, St Peters Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, Gateshead, NE9 5TU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 213 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Peter’s love their school.”
- “They are polite, good-natured and welcoming to all.”
- “Pupils’ respectful nature and their compassion for others is evident.”
To improve
- “In some cases, however, adaptations to curriculum and task delivery for a small minority of pupils mean they are not able to fully express their understanding in their written work.”
- “This can limit their achievement.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 March 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) | 80% | 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: 36 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- Kells Lane Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Glynwood Community Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Carr Hill Community Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kelvin Grove Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- South Street Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, Gateshead 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Caedmon Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakfield Junior School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade