King Edward Primary School

King Edward Primary is a happy, caring primary school where pupils show excellent attitudes and many achieve highly. Behaviour and early years provision are particular strengths: children get an exceptionally strong start, pastoral care is effective, and pupils with SEND are fully included and well supported. The curriculum is ambitious and regularly reviewed, reading and phonics are taught strongly, and pupils benefit from a wide range of enrichment and clubs. Safeguarding is effective. The main areas for improvement concern how consistently the school checks and uses information about what pupils have learned. Assessment is not applied consistently enough to adapt teaching, and some pupils, including some disadvantaged pupils, have not mastered the curriculum in sufficient depth, especially in writing. Personal development is generally good, but pupils' understanding of different faiths, cultures and British values is not consistently well developed. Leadership is well regarded and staff feel supported, but governors do not receive sufficiently detailed information about pupils' achievement to provide effective support and challenge. This is a primary foundation school for pupils aged 3 to 11, inspected in June 2025; it was previously judged good.

Strengths

• Happy and caring school with positive staff-pupil relationships
• Outstanding behaviour and attitudes to learning
• High expectations that many pupils rise to and achieve highly
• Exceptionally strong early years provision and start to education
• Effective pastoral care and support for pupils' worries
• Ambitious, regularly reviewed curriculum with clear emphasis on knowledge
• Expert phonics teaching that helps pupils read quickly and fluently
• Pupils with SEND fully included and effectively supported in lessons
• Wide range of enrichment, trips, residentials and lunchtime/after-school clubs
• Staff feel supported and value professional development
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent approach to analysing the impact of the curriculum on all pupils
• Assessment information is not always used effectively to adapt future learning
• Some pupils have not mastered the curriculum in sufficient depth, especially in writing
• Disadvantaged pupils are not consistently supported to achieve strong outcomes
• Pupils' understanding of other faiths, cultures and British values is not consistently well developed
• Governors receive limited information about pupils' achievement, weakening support and challenge

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at King Edward Primary School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.2% of pupils at King Edward Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 King Edward Primary School had 25.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 11.8% of pupils at King Edward Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 King Edward Primary School received £6,227 and spent £6,249 for each of its 470 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £26,000 (-£54 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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All schools in North Tyneside · North Tyneside local authority: places and applications

King Edward Primary School is part of The North Tyneside Learning Trust, which runs 29 schools. The nearest others:

• Southlands School North Shields
• Monkhouse Primary School North Shields
• Marden High School North Shields
• Monkseaton High School Whitley Bay
• Norham High School North Shields
• Marden Bridge Middle School Whitley Bay
• Appletree Gardens First School Whitley Bay
• Rockcliffe First School Whitley Bay
• Monkseaton Coastal School Whitley Bay
• Woodlawn School Whitley Bay

What is King Edward Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for King Edward Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was King Edward Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

King Edward Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does King Edward Primary School have?

King Edward Primary School has 473 pupils on roll.

What age range does King Edward Primary School cover?

King Edward Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are King Edward Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 48% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is King Edward Primary School?

King Edward Primary School is at Preston Avenue, North Shields, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE30 2BD.