Eastlea Primary School

Community school·Primary school Cramlington, Northumberland·NE23 3ST
Composite score
46.2
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#8,720
National rank
#468
In North East
#40
In Northumberland
Top 59%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
55%
% achieving higher RWM
9%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
79%
34 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.17
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
101
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
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1 per place
1.0020221.3320231.2120241.1420251.172026

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

Northumberland does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Eastlea Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
228
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
4.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,239
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Eastlea Primary School is a primary school serving Cramlington, Northumberland, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 228 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 55% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 27.0 percentage points compared with 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 102 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 9% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Eastlea Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 34 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 21.9 pupils per teacher. Eastlea 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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