Oakfield Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · 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 🔒
Oakfield Infant School is a primary school in Gateshead for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Gateshead has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Oakfield Infant School 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 Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 55 of the 62 other Gateshead primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 0.9 first choices per offer, the 10th lowest of 63 Gateshead primary schools.
- Free school meal eligibility is 6.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 28.4% 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
- Chowdene Bank, Low Fell, Gateshead, NE9 6JH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Gateshead
- Pupils on roll
- 128 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 28 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Oakfield Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Harlow Green Community Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Kells Lane Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School, Harlow Green 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Glynwood Community Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Low Fell 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Oswald's Catholic Primary, Wrekenton 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Larkspur Community Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published