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St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Academy
Old Fold Road, Gateshead NE10 0DJ · stwilfridsgateshead.bwcet.com · 0191 477 1909
On the mapSearch near NE10 0DJ
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 39%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Gateshead 64%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Gateshead Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 156
- 37 over 119 places · 131%
- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 35.4%
- First language not English
- 48.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Gateshead Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 24 families put the school first and 24 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 20 | 24 | 1.2▲ | 83% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 17 | 16 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 39% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 11% the higher standard. Across Gateshead it was 64%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼39% | 62% | ||
| ▲11% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼100 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 108400)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 11 March 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Gateshead was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 11 Mar 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 108400), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 108400)
Feb 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 108400)
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (11 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 11
- 7% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 45% who had a child bullied