St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, West Denton

About St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, West Denton

St John Vianney Catholic Primary School in West Denton was rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2024, with all five categories — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — judged Good. The school had previously been rated Outstanding in 2008. The most telling academic metric is the Key Stage 2 combined expected standard in reading, writing and maths, where 71% of pupils met the benchmark. That is comfortably above the Newcastle upon Tyne local authority average of 63%, and places the school 14th out of 55 primary schools in the area, putting it in the top 25% locally and the top 30% regionally. The school also performs well on individual subjects: 89% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, 87% in maths, and 91% in writing. Higher-attaining pupils are less common — 13% achieved the higher standard across all three subjects — but the school’s strength is clearly in solid, consistent progress for the majority.

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