Whitley Lodge First School
URN 108600 · Primary · Community school · North Tyneside
Woodburn Drive, Whitley Bay, NE26 3HW
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, 35 families named Whitley Lodge First School as their first preference, and the school made 36 offers.
That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 48% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.
position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake
Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.08 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | 90 | 36 | 0.97 |
| 2024 | 40 | 91 | 40 | 1.00 |
| 2023 | 42 | 124 | 45 | 0.93 |
| 2022 | 45 | 108 | 43 | 1.05 |
| 2021 | 49 | 96 | 44 | 1.11 |
| 2020 | 36 | 97 | 39 | 0.92 |
| 2019 | 60 | 110 | 45 | 1.33 |
| 2018 | 47 | 110 | 45 | 1.04 |
| 2017 | 43 | 107 | 44 | 0.98 |
| 2016 | 53 | 114 | 45 | 1.18 |
| 2015 | 48 | 110 | 45 | 1.07 |
| 2014 | 55 | 101 | 45 | 1.22 |
“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 report card (current framework), 12 May 2026
Safeguarding: Met
Inclusion: Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard
Achievement: Strong standard
Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard
Early years: Strong standard
Leadership and governance: Strong standard
The current framework does not award an overall grade.
Ofsted's report for this school
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 15 June 2022
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 year | Teachers (FTE) | Still there a year later | Moved to another state school | Left state schools | Left in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 11.9 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 15.1% |
| 2023/24 | 12.2 | 12.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2022/23 | 11.6 | 10.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 12.9% |
| 2021/22 | 11.2 | 9.4 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16.1% |
| 2020/21 | 11.6 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 12.9% |
| 2019/20 | 12.1 | 12.1 | 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 (Whitley Lodge).
Covers: 118 live postcodes across 4.635 km².
12 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 Whitley Lodge 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 Whitley Lodge First School.
- Coquet Park First School: 0.7 km (0.4 miles) south-east, Whitley Bay
- Southridge First School: 0.8 km (0.5 miles) south-west, Whitley Bay
- Marine Park First School: 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east, Whitley Bay
- Appletree Gardens First School: 2.1 km (1.3 miles) south, Whitley Bay
- Langley First School: 2.3 km (1.4 miles) south, Whitley Bay
- South Wellfield First School: 2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west, Whitley Bay
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Whitley Lodge First School
- All schools in North Tyneside
- Schools in the NE26 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - North Tyneside: school admission zones. arcgis fetch 2026-09-05
Retrieved 5 September 2026
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.