Seascape Primary School

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
27 first choices, 27 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
39
any preference, for 27 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Seascape 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
267
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
73.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
7.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
29.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,890
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

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). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Seascape Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 27 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 9.2%. There are about 16.4 pupils per teacher. 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 above.

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