South Street Community Primary School

About South Street Community Primary School

South Street Community Primary School in Gateshead is a state primary that significantly outperforms the local authority average on the headline KS2 measure. In the 2023/24 academic year, 75% of its pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, compared with a Gateshead average of 64% for the same phase. That puts the school in the top 25% nationally for this metric, and 15th out of 61 primary schools in the borough. It’s a strong result for a school where over half of pupils (51.7%) are eligible for free school meals, a figure well above the national average. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in March 2024, awarded a Good rating across all categories — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a notable improvement from its previous inspection in February 2022, when the school was rated Requires Improvement across the board.

Looking more closely at the KS2 results, the school’s strengths are clearest in reading and maths. 88% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, with an average scaled score of 108, and 88% also hit the expected standard in maths, with an average score of 106. Writing was slightly lower, with 79% at the expected level. At the higher standard, 46% of pupils achieved greater depth in reading, while 17% did so in maths and just 8% in writing. The school’s ranking score of 75 places it comfortably in the top quarter of primary schools nationally, and it sits 15th in Gateshead, just behind a cluster of Catholic and community primaries. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, 0.9 km away. While the school doesn’t publish Progress 8 scores, the attainment data suggests pupils are arriving at a solid baseline and leaving with results that exceed the local norm.

The school is oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake, with 43 applications for 29 places and 25 first-preference offers made. That ratio of 1.48 applicants per place reflects its local popularity. Facilities include a gymnasium, sports hall, playing fields, art studios, an ICT suite and a chapel, and the school offers a broad range of clubs from coding and science to drama and eco club. Sports on offer include football, netball, athletics, dance and swimming. SEND provision is well developed, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. With nursery provision on site, this is a school that suits families looking for strong academic outcomes in a mixed, non-denominational setting, particularly those who value the stability of a Good-rated school that has demonstrably improved under current leadership.

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