The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Gosforth Park First School

URN 108442 · Primary · Foundation school · Newcastle upon Tyne

Granville Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE3 5JQ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 71 families named Gosforth Park First School as their first preference, and the school made 60 offers.

That is 1.18 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 89% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 89% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.21 in 2021–2022 and 1.07 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 71 225 60 1.18
2024 57 227 60 0.95
2023 55 213 60 0.92
2022 52 203 45 1.16
2021 57 228 45 1.27
2020 56 216 45 1.24
2019 38 202 45 0.84
2018 55 215 45 1.22
2017 39 245 45 0.87
2016 45 239 45 1.00
2015 45 267 45 1.00
2014 49 237 45 1.09

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2020 to 202520202025

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 13 May 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 5 February 2020

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 13.2 10.4 0.0 2.8 21.2%
2023/24 11.4 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 11.2 10.4 0.0 0.8 7.1%
2021/22 11.6 11.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 10.4 10.4 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 10.4 9.6 0.0 0.8 7.7%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Gosforth Park First School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.