Ryton Community Infant School

Community school·Infant school Ryton, Gateshead·NE40 3AF

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Ryton Community Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

24 first choices, 25 places

First choices per place

0.96

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 25 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0320220.8620231.0020240.9720250.962026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Ryton Community Infant School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 142
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

37.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

10.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.5%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.7%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

10.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

26.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,647

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Ryton Junior School Ryton · 0.0 mi 55.5 Emmaville Primary School Ryton · 0.6 mi 61.6 St Agnes' Catholic Primary School, Crawcrook Ryton · 0.7 mi 66.1 Crookhill Community Primary School Ryton · 1.1 mi 53.7 Greenside Primary School Ryton · 1.4 mi 69.1 St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon Blaydon-on-Tyne · 1.7 mi 85.3 West Lane Primary School Blaydon-on-Tyne · 2.3 mi 38.0 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon Blaydon-on-Tyne · 2.3 mi 53.4

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Ryton Community Infant School is a primary school serving Ryton, Gateshead, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 142 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

Ryton Community Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 24 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 26.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Ryton Community Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.