The School Record

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

Appletree Gardens First School

URN 108584 · Primary · Foundation school · North Tyneside

Appletree Gardens, Whitley Bay, NE25 8XS

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, 30 families named Appletree Gardens First School as their first preference, and the school made 32 offers.

That is 0.94 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 33% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 33% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 0.94 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 30 66 32 0.94
2024 35 74 37 0.95
2023 46 88 47 0.98
2022 30 53 33 0.91
2021 44 71 48 0.92
2020 34 73 49 0.69
2019 45 79 59 0.76
2018 39 74 55 0.71
2017 42 68 43 0.98
2016 37 77 55 0.67
2015 47 71 57 0.82
2014 36 66 50 0.72

“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 ungraded inspection, 12 June 2024

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 14.4 13.4 1.0 0.0 6.9%
2023/24 14.0 13.0 0.0 1.0 7.1%
2022/23 14.1 13.6 0.0 0.5 3.5%
2021/22 14.3 13.0 0.0 1.3 9.1%
2020/21 13.7 11.3 0.0 2.4 17.5%
2019/20 12.9 12.9 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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

North Tyneside publishes an admission zone for this school (Appletree Gardens).

Covers: 116 live postcodes across 1.240 km².

20 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Appletree Gardens First School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Appletree Gardens 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.