Monkton Infants' School

Academy converter·Infant school South Shields, South Tyneside·NE34 9SD

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Monkton Infants' School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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%

34 first choices, 34 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 34 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9620220.9220231.0020241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put Monkton 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).

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

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 146
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

71.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

2.7%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

17.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

8.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

34.3%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,518

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Monkton Academy South Shields · 0.3 mi 18.2 Biddick Hall Junior School South Shields · 0.3 mi 91.6 Holy Trinity Church of England Academy (South Shields) South Shields · 0.3 mi 48.5 Lord Blyton Primary School South Shields · 0.4 mi 44.2 Simonside Primary School Jarrow · 0.7 mi 24.0 St Mary's Catholic Primary School Jarrow · 0.8 mi 67.9 SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, South Shields South Shields · 0.9 mi 58.2 Forest View Primary South Shields · 0.9 mi 64.6

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

Monkton Infants' School at a glance

Located in South Shields, South Tyneside, Monkton Infants' School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 146 pupils aged 2 to 7.

Monkton Infants' School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 34 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.3%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 72% 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. Monkton 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.