The School Record

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

Ivy Road Primary School

URN 108606 · Primary · Foundation school · North Tyneside

Ivy Road Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 9AP

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 27 February 2024 (Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.

Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

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, 17 families named Ivy Road Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 21 offers.

That is 0.81 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 9% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 9% 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 0.87 in 2021–2022 and 0.8 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 17 27 21 0.81
2024 15 25 19 0.79
2023 21 34 30 0.70
2022 20 37 23 0.87
2021 22 44 25 0.88
2020 18 35 30 0.60
2019 25 34 27 0.93
2018 11 19 18 0.61
2017 15 20 18 0.83
2016 15 29 20 0.75
2015 12 19 16 0.75
2014 23 38 30 0.77

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 2022 to 202420222024

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 27 February 2024

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness: Inadequate

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: Inadequate

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 14 December 2022

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 53.0% 0.0% 105.0 104.0
2023/24 35.0% 5.0% 104.0 102.0
2022/23 33.0% 13.0% 99.0 95.0

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 9.5 8.5 0.0 1.0 10.5%
2023/24 10.7 8.6 1.5 0.5 18.7%
2022/23 8.7 7.7 0.0 1.0 11.5%
2021/22 9.3 6.7 1.6 1.0 28.0%
2020/21 8.1 7.5 0.0 0.5 6.2%
2019/20 8.1 7.1 0.0 1.0 12.3%

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 (Ivy Road).

Covers: 95 live postcodes across 2.549 km².

13 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 Ivy Road Primary 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 Ivy Road Primary 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.