The School Record

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

Beaconhill Community Primary School

URN 122193 · Primary · Community school · Northumberland

Langdale Drive, Cramlington, NE23 8EH

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, 34 families named Beaconhill Community Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 1.13 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 86% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 86% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 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 34 48 30 1.13
2024 29 40 29 1.00
2023 23 31 23 1.00
2022 25 33 26 0.96
2021 20 28 21 0.95
2020 30 39 30 1.00
2019 29 32 29 1.00
2018 20 24 20 1.00
2017 26 29 26 1.00
2016 32 40 30 1.07
2015 21 25 21 1.00
2014 27 33 27 1.00

“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, 17 June 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

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 41.0% 0.0% 101.0 100.0
2023/24 35.0% 0.0% 99.0 100.0
2022/23 39.0% 3.0% 99.0 100.0

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 11.2 11.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 12.2 11.2 0.0 1.0 8.2%
2022/23 10.5 10.5 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 10.8 8.8 0.0 2.0 18.5%
2020/21 11.0 9.8 0.0 1.2 10.9%
2019/20 10.3 9.8 0.5 0.0 4.9%

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

Northumberland publishes an admission zone for this school (Beaconhill Community Primary School).

Covers: 146 live postcodes across 7.459 km².

11 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 Beaconhill Community 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 Beaconhill Community 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.