Biddick Hall Infants' School

Community school·Infant school South Shields, South Tyneside·NE34 9JD

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Biddick Hall Infants' School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. 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%

41 first choices, 41 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 41 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9520221.0820231.0020240.9820251.002026

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

Every child who put Biddick Hall Infants' 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 226
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

67.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

2.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

27.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.6%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.6%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,122

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Biddick Hall Junior School South Shields · 0.3 mi 91.6 Holy Trinity Church of England Academy (South Shields) South Shields · 0.5 mi 48.5 Monkton Academy South Shields · 0.5 mi 18.2 Forest View Primary South Shields · 0.7 mi 64.6 Lord Blyton Primary School South Shields · 0.7 mi 44.2 St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, South Shields South Shields · 0.8 mi 52.4 Simonside Primary School Jarrow · 0.9 mi 24.0 St Mary's Catholic Primary School Jarrow · 0.9 mi 67.9

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

Biddick Hall Infants' School is a primary school serving South Shields, South Tyneside, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 226 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Biddick Hall Infants' School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 41 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 20.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 68% 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. Biddick Hall Infants' 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.