Glynwood Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Gateshead·NE9 5SY
Composite score
42.2
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#10,120
National rank
#543
In North East
#47
In Gateshead
Top 68%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
57 first choices, 59 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
123
any preference, for 59 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0520220.8920230.9220240.8720250.972026

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

Every child who put Glynwood Community Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
429
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
31.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
11.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
24.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,428
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Glynwood Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Gateshead, Glynwood Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 429 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 56% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 18.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Glynwood Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 57 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.6%. There are about 21.4 pupils per teacher. Glynwood Community Primary 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.

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