Primary
Simonside Primary School
Bedeburn Road, Westerhope, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE5 4LG
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 275 of 315 places
- Local authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Nursery
- Yes
- Trust
- ONE (OWL NORTH EAST) TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2020
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
63%
3 points below the Newcastle upon Tyne average (66% across 93 schools)
104.0
1.7 below the Newcastle upon Tyne average (105.7 across 93 schools)
53rd of 93 by our score, among the primary schools in Newcastle upon Tyne we can score - 104 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 106 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 63% |
| Working at a higher standard | 9% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Bedeburn Road, Westerhope, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE5 4LG
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Newcastle upon Tyne admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Victoria Carter
- Address
- Bedeburn Road, Westerhope, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE5 4LG
- Telephone
- 01912860776