St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Blaydon-on-Tyne, Gateshead
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.73 miles
Published by Gateshead Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon is a primary school in Blaydon-on-Tyne, Gateshead for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2023. Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon 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 | 0.73 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 66% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Gateshead.
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.73 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 7 Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- All 30 Reception offers in 2026 went to first-choice families, from 32 first-choice applications; 2 first-choice families (6%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 15.9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 27.4% 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
- Croftdale Road, Blaydon-on-Tyne, NE21 4BG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 226 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 March 2023
Strengths
- “St Joseph’s Catholic Primary is a school where everyone is valued.”
- “It is a school that is warm and welcoming to all.”
- “Around school, pupils work and collaborate in a calm and purposeful way.”
To improve
- “Where curriculum plans are still being developed, some pupils have confusion in key knowledge.”
- “However, some misconceptions, in the sounds pupils use to read and how they write them, are not always picked up quickly by adults working with pupils at the earliest stages of reading.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 May 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) | 66% | 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: 32 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 Gateshead.
- Blaydon West Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkhead Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- West Lane Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Crookhill Community Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Front Street Community Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Swalwell Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Fellside Community Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published