St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton

Academy converter·Primary school Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne·NE6 5HN
Composite score
63.0
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#3,141
National rank
#175
In North East
#17
In Newcastle upon Tyne
Top 21%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
70%
% achieving higher RWM
15%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
85%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
95
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
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1 per place
1.0020220.9720230.9320241.0020251.132026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
210
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
19.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,524
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton is a primary school serving Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 210 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton 'Outstanding'. 70% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 7.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 21% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 15% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 34 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 23.4 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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