St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon

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St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School in Blaydon received an Outstanding rating from Ofsted in its most recent inspection in October 2024, with every graded category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision — all judged Outstanding. That inspection was a section 8 visit, so no new overall effectiveness grade was issued, but the school’s previous graded inspection in 2007 also rated it Outstanding overall. The most telling exam metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined: 90 per cent, compared with a Gateshead local authority average of 64 per cent. That figure places the school first out of 61 primary schools in Gateshead, and in the top five per cent nationally. In reading and maths individually, every pupil met the expected standard — 100 per cent in both subjects — and average scaled scores were 110 in reading and 108 in maths, both above the national benchmark of 100.

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