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Schools in Newcastle upon Tyne

108 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Newcastle upon Tyne has 101 state schools: 72 primary, 12 secondary, 1 all-through, 3 nursery. Between them they teach around 42,567 pupils. 76 have enough published data for a score, averaging 5.2 out of 10, and 9 score 8 or above.

17 have a sixth form. 66 take children from age three or under. 26 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Good or better
65
of 66 rated
Average score
5.2
out of 10

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Gosforth Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Simonside Primary School Good · ×0.82 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Stocksfield Avenue Primary School Good · ×0.82 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Thomas Walling Primary Academy Good · ×0.82 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Mountfield Primary School Good · ×0.84 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Walbottle Village Primary School Good · ×0.86 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Grange First School Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Hawthorn Primary School Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Newburn Manor Primary School Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Brunton First School Good · ×0.88 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Newcastle upon Tyne

Primary schools: Only 4 of ~119 schools follow any LA default; almost all are academies with individually published policies — no meaningful single answer. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Archbishop Runcie CofE First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Archibald First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Ashfield Nursery School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Atkinson Road Primary Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Bahr Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Requires improvement Beech Hill Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Benfield School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Benton Park Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Bridgewater Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Broadwood Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Brunton First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Byker Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Callerton Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Canning Street Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Central Walker Church of England Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Cheviot Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Chillingham Road Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Christ Church CofE Primary School Newcastle upon Tyne Cragside Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Dame Allan's Schools Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dinnington First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Fenham Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Excelsior Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Requires improvement Farne Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Gosforth Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Gosforth Central Middle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Gosforth East Middle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Gosforth Junior High Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Gosforth Park First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Grange First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Great Park Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Hadrian School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Outstanding Havannah First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Hawthorn Primary School Newcastle upon Tyne · Good Hilton Primary Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Hotspur Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Jesmond Park Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Kenton Bar Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Kenton School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Kingston Park Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Knop Law Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Lemington Riverside Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Milecastle Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Monkchester Road Nursery School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Moorside Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Mountfield Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good NCG Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Newburn Manor Nursery School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Newburn Manor Primary School Newcastle upon Tyne · Good Newcastle High School for Girls GDST Newcastle Preparatory School Newcastle-upon-Tyne North East Futures UTC Newcastle Upon Tyne · Not judged North Fawdon Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Northern Counties School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Our Lady and St Anne's Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Ravenswood Primary School Newcastle upon Tyne · Good Regent Farm First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Royal Grammar School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Sacred Heart Catholic High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Sacred Heart Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Simonside Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Sir Charles Parsons School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Outstanding South Gosforth First School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Alban's Catholic Primary School, Walker Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Catherine's Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged St Charles' Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Cuthbert's High School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Kenton Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St George's Catholic Primary School, Bells Close Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, West Denton Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Johns Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Benwell Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Lawrence's Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Mark's Catholic Primary School, Westerhope Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Mary's Catholic School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Outstanding St Michael's Catholic Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Gosforth Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good St Paul's CofE Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Outstanding St Vincents Catholic Primary School, Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Stocksfield Avenue Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Studio West Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Talbot House Children's Charity Newcastle upon Tyne · Good The Newcastle School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Thomas Bewick School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Thomas Walling Primary Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Throckley Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Trinity Academy Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinity Post 16 Solutions Limited Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Trinity Solutions Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tyneview Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Walbottle Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Walbottle Village Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Walker Riverside Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged Walkergate Community School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Waverley Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Welbeck Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne West Denton Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good West Jesmond Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged West Newcastle Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Not judged West Walker Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Westerhope Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good Westfield School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Westgate Hill Primary Academy Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wingrove Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wyndham Primary School Newcastle-upon-Tyne · Good

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 31 October 2027
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 15 January 2028
Sept 2028 Offer day 1 March 2028
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 17 April 2028
Sept 2027 Application deadline 31 October 2026
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 15 January 2027
Sept 2027 Offer day 1 March 2027
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 16 April 2027
Sept 2026 Application deadline 31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 16 April 2026 (passed)

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