St Charles' Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne·NE3 3HE
Composite score
89.0
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National rank
#14
In North East
#1
In Newcastle upon Tyne
Top 2%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
83%
% achieving higher RWM
30%
Reading average scaled score
112.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
113.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
78%
36 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.24
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
89
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720221.0020230.9220241.2320251.242026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Charles' Catholic Primary School yet. Newcastle upon Tyne does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
241
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
7.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
16.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
3.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,651
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Charles' Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, St Charles' Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 241 pupils aged 3 to 11. 83% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 2% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 112 in reading and 113 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 30% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Charles' Catholic 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 36 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 3.4%. There are about 22.0 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Charles' Catholic 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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