Schools in Newcastle upon Tyne[1]

Local authority district E08000021 · 108 open schools[2]

Neighbourhood deprivation

The district's 180 neighbourhoods (2021 LSOAs)[3] by their place in England's Index of Multiple Deprivation, in fifths of all neighbourhoods (1 in 5 of England's neighbourhoods is in each fifth):

most deprived 20%: 69 (38%)[4]
second 20%: 23 (13%)[4]
middle 20%: 25 (14%)[4]
fourth 20%: 27 (15%)[4]
least deprived 20%: 36 (20%)[4]

Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 deciles grouped in pairs; it describes the neighbourhoods, not the pupils who attend the district's schools.

By kind of deprivation

The share of the district's neighbourhoods in each fifth of England's on each part of the index (the most deprived 20% are deciles 1 and 2, where 1 is the most deprived 10% of England's neighbourhoods):

Measure	Most deprived 20%	Second	Middle	Fourth	Least deprived 20%
Income	36%[4]	12%[4]	14%[4]	13%[4]	24%[4]
Employment	39%[4]	13%[4]	12%[4]	13%[4]	23%[4]
Education and skills	41%[4]	9%[4]	13%[4]	12%[4]	25%[4]
Health and disability	47%[4]	22%[4]	14%[4]	8%[4]	9%[4]
Crime	37%[4]	22%[4]	16%[4]	14%[4]	11%[4]
Housing and services	3%[4]	14%[4]	25%[4]	24%[4]	33%[4]
Living environment	16%[4]	21%[4]	28%[4]	26%[4]	9%[4]
Children in low-income families	36%[4]	14%[4]	13%[4]	13%[4]	24%[4]

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Income: People on low incomes: out of work, or in work on low pay, and receiving benefits or tax credits. Employment: Working-age people out of work through unemployment, sickness, disability or caring. Education and skills: Low attainment and skills: children's results and staying on in education, adults' qualifications and English. Health and disability: Risk of early death and of a poorer quality of life through ill health or disability. Crime: Risk of personal and material victimisation: recorded violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage. Housing and services: Barriers to housing and services: distance to a GP, school, shop and post office, and housing that is unaffordable, overcrowded or hard to get. Living environment: The quality of the local environment: housing in poor condition or without central heating, air quality and road accidents. Children in low-income families: Children aged 0–15 living in income-deprived families (the IDACI, part of the income measure).

Census 2021

Shares in the district's neighbourhoods together, on census day (21 March 2021):

Households that own their home: 49.2% of 122,811 households[5] (England: 61.3%[5])
Adults with a degree or similar: 34.6% of 248,477 residents aged 16 and over[6] (England: 33.9%[6])
Adults in higher managerial and professional jobs: 11.9% of 248,421 residents aged 16 and over[7] (England: 13.2%[7])

Households that own their home: Households that own their home outright or with a mortgage or loan (shared ownership not included), of all households. Adults with a degree or similar: Residents aged 16 and over whose highest qualification is Level 4 or above (a degree, HND, NVQ level 4 or higher), of all residents aged 16 and over. Adults in higher managerial and professional jobs: Residents aged 16 and over in higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations (NS-SEC classes 1–3, by their current or most recent job), of all residents aged 16 and over.

Secondary schools (18)

School	Ages	Headline results
Benfield School	11–16[2]	A8 32 2025/26[8]
Callerton Academy	11–16[2]	A8 42 2025/26[8]
Excelsior Academy	3–19[2]	A8 34 2025/26[8] KS2 55% 2024/25[9]
Gosforth Academy	13–18[2]	A8 55 2025/26[8] AL B 2024/25[10]
Gosforth Central Middle School	9–13[2]	KS2 72% 2024/25[9]
Gosforth East Middle School	9–13[2]	KS2 80% 2024/25[9]
Gosforth Junior High Academy	9–13[2]	KS2 71% 2024/25[9]
Great Park Academy	9–16[2]	KS2 83% 2024/25[9]
Jesmond Park Academy	11–18[2]	A8 53 2025/26[8] AL C 2024/25[10]
Kenton School	11–18[2]	A8 41 2025/26[8] AL C- 2024/25[10]
North East Futures UTC	14–19[2]	A8 30 2025/26[8] AL C+ 2024/25[10]
Sacred Heart Catholic High School	11–18[2]	A8 52 2025/26[8] AL B- 2024/25[10]
St Cuthbert's High School	11–18[2]	A8 47 2025/26[8] AL C+ 2024/25[10]
St Mary's Catholic School	11–18[2]	A8 54 2025/26[8] AL B- 2024/25[10]
Studio West	11–19[2]	A8 33 2025/26[8] AL D+ 2024/25[10]
Trinity Solutions Academy	16–19[2]
Walbottle Academy	11–18[2]	A8 46 2025/26[8] AL C 2024/25[10]
Walker Riverside Academy	11–18[2]	A8 37 2025/26[8]

Primary schools (72)

School	Ages	Headline results
Archbishop Runcie CofE First School	3–9[2]
Archibald First School	3–9[2]
Atkinson Road Primary Academy	2–11[2]	KS2 72% 2024/25[9]
Beech Hill Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 79% 2024/25[9]
Benton Park Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 79% 2024/25[9]
Bridgewater Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 64% 2024/25[9]
Broadwood Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 39% 2024/25[9]
Brunton First School	4–9[2]
Byker Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 64% 2024/25[9]
Canning Street Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 47% 2024/25[9]
Central Walker Church of England Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 56% 2024/25[9]
Cheviot Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 66% 2024/25[9]
Chillingham Road Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 60% 2024/25[9]
Christ Church CofE Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 65% 2024/25[9]
Cragside Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 83% 2024/25[9]
Dinnington First School	3–9[2]
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Fenham	3–11[2]	KS2 52% 2024/25[9]
Farne Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 73% 2024/25[9]
Gosforth Park First School	3–9[2]
Grange First School	3–9[2]
Havannah First School	4–9[2]
Hawthorn Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 69% 2024/25[9]
Hilton Primary Academy	2–11[2]	KS2 80% 2024/25[9]
Hotspur Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 52% 2024/25[9]
Kenton Bar Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 57% 2024/25[9]
Kingston Park Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 65% 2024/25[9]
Knop Law Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 83% 2024/25[9]
Lemington Riverside Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 52% 2024/25[9]
Milecastle Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
Moorside Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 39% 2024/25[9]
Mountfield Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 44% 2024/25[9]
Newburn Manor Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 86% 2024/25[9]
North Fawdon Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 57% 2024/25[9]
Our Lady and St Anne's Catholic Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 57% 2024/25[9]
Ravenswood Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 73% 2024/25[9]
Regent Farm First School	3–9[2]
Sacred Heart Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 68% 2024/25[9]
Simonside Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 63% 2024/25[9]
South Gosforth First School	3–9[2]
St Alban's Catholic Primary School, Walker	3–11[2]	KS2 37% 2024/25[9]
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Newcastle	4–11[2]	KS2 57% 2024/25[9]
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 33% 2024/25[9]
St Charles' Catholic Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 83% 2024/25[9]
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 68% 2024/25[9]
St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Kenton	3–11[2]	KS2 66% 2024/25[9]
St George's Catholic Primary School, Bells Close	3–11[2]	KS2 67% 2024/25[9]
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, West Denton	3–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
St Johns Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 50% 2024/25[9]
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Benwell	3–11[2]	KS2 68% 2024/25[9]
St Lawrence's Catholic Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
St Mark's Catholic Primary School, Westerhope	3–11[2]	KS2 66% 2024/25[9]
St Michael's Catholic Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 73% 2024/25[9]
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Gosforth	4–11[2]	KS2 73% 2024/25[9]
St Paul's CofE Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 69% 2024/25[9]
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Heaton	4–11[2]	KS2 70% 2024/25[9]
St Vincents Catholic Primary School, Newcastle	4–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
Stocksfield Avenue Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 67% 2024/25[9]
Thomas Walling Primary Academy	2–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
Throckley Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 87% 2024/25[9]
Tyneview Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 77% 2024/25[9]
Walbottle Village Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 75% 2024/25[9]
Walkergate Community School	2–11[2]	KS2 69% 2024/25[9]
Waverley Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 74% 2024/25[9]
Welbeck Academy	2–11[2]	KS2 65% 2024/25[9]
West Denton Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 48% 2024/25[9]
West Jesmond Primary School	4–11[2]	KS2 84% 2024/25[9]
West Newcastle Academy	3–11[2]	KS2 57% 2024/25[9]
West Walker Primary School	2–11[2]	KS2 50% 2024/25[9]
Westerhope Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 70% 2024/25[9]
Westgate Hill Primary Academy	3–11[2]	KS2 54% 2024/25[9]
Wingrove Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 59% 2024/25[9]
Wyndham Primary School	3–11[2]	KS2 60% 2024/25[9]

Independent schools (7)

School	Ages	Headline results
Bahr Academy	11–16[2]
Dame Allan's Schools	3–19[2]	AL B+ 2024/25[10]
Newcastle High School for Girls GDST	3–18[2]	AL B 2024/25[10]
Newcastle Preparatory School	3–11[2]
Royal Grammar School	7–19[2]	AL A- 2024/25[10]
The Newcastle School	2–18[2]	AL C 2024/25[10]
Westfield School	3–18[2]	AL C 2024/25[10]

Special schools and alternative provision (8)

School	Ages	Headline results
Hadrian School	2–11[2]
Mary Astell Academy	5–16[2]
Newcastle Bridges School	2–19[2]
Northern Counties School	3–19[2]
Sir Charles Parsons School	11–19[2]
Talbot House Children's Charity	4–16[2]
Thomas Bewick School	3–19[2]
Trinity Academy Newcastle	5–16[2]

Nursery schools (3)

School	Ages	Headline results
Ashfield Nursery School	2–4[2]
Monkchester Road Nursery School	2–5[2]
Newburn Manor Nursery School	2–5[2]

Sources

Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: LSOA (2021) to Electoral Ward (2026) to LAD (2026) Best Fit Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-07. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Office for National Statistics: Census 2021: TS054 Tenure. Period 2021-03-21, final, published 2023-01-06. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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