Seascape Primary School

Community school · Primary school · Peterlee, County Durham
SR8 5NJ
Composite score
4.6

Seascape Primary School at a glance

Located in Peterlee, County Durham, Seascape Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 267 pupils aged 2 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' when it was last inspected in January 2026. 7% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 20.0 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 100 in reading and 94 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 74% 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. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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 further down the page.

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#14,792
National rank
#763
In North East
#195
In County Durham
Top 100%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
7%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
94.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
Maths progress

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 13/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Urgent improvement
Leadership and governance
Urgent improvement
Curriculum and teaching
Urgent improvement
Attendance and behaviour
Urgent improvement
Personal development and wellbeing
Needs attention
Inclusion
Needs attention
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Urgent improvement

School profile

Pupils on roll 267 % FSM ever-6 73.8% % EAL 6.0% Age range 2–11 Gender Mixed

Location

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