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Primary · NE26 · Whitley Bay

Rockcliffe First School

Grafton Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 2NR

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The North Tyneside Learning Trust is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

OfstedGood

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedGood
Attendance (2024/25)96.4%
Attainment (2024/25)No KS2 at this school
Roll vs capacityClose to published capacity
Pupils244

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

Good

Report published 18 Mar 2024.

Inspection history

  • Previous gradedOutstanding

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in NE26. Where we have them, council (North Tyneside) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
244
Free school meals
8.3%
2.8% below district average (11.1%)

Also: North Tyneside 27.5% · England 24.7%

SEN
11.8%
2.8% below district average (14.6%)

Also: North Tyneside 18.5% · England 18.2%

EAL
13.6%
9.7% above district average (3.9%)
Attendance
96.4% Autumn and spring 2024/25
0.3% above district average (96.1%)

Also: North Tyneside 95.3% · England 94.8%

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the NE26 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. England is the state-funded average. Lower persistent absence is better.

Persistent absence2024/25

6.5%

6.8% below England (13.3%)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring 2024/25 from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN). The headline above uses the same period.

  • 97.7%
    2020/21
  • 94.5%
    2021/22
  • 95.9%
    2022/23
  • 95.7%
    2023/24
  • 96.4%
    2024/25

Admissions

Applications and offers (September 2026 entry)

For September 2026 entry, 31 families put this school first. 30 of them were offered a place here.

Named as first preference
31
First-preference offers
30
First preferences offered a place
96.8%
Total offers
30
Named on any preference
74

This is historic demand from one admissions round. It is not a guarantee of a place, and it does not show a catchment area. Admission rules and priorities differ by school.

SourceDfE applications and offers, September 2026 entryPublished 18th of June 2026.

How full the building is

Roll versus published capacity
Close to published capacity
Published capacity (GIAS)
251
Pupils on roll
244

Pupils on roll compared with the capacity published in GIAS. This is about building size, not applications or offers, and it is not a guarantee of a place.

Applications and offers come from DfE. Last distance offered and catchment areas are not published nationally. Your council admissions booklet has those details.

Check your council admissions booklet via the North Tyneside page.

SEN support

SEN %
11.8%

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Schools near Rockcliffe First School

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Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Oct 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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