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Walker Riverside Academy

Waverdale Avenue, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 4AW

TYNE COAST ACADEMY TRUST is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

OfstedNo overall grade

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedNo overall grade
Attendance92.6%
AttainmentProgress 8: -0.92
AdmissionsAbout average
Pupils1094

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

No overall grade

New inspection format: no single overall grade.

Latest visit (Nov 2024): no overall grade — quality of education require improvement; behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and management good. See the full Ofsted report.

Inspection history

  • Previous gradedRequires improvement

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 NE6. Where we have them, council (Newcastle upon Tyne) 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
1094
Free school meals
39.7%
7.3% below district average (47%)

Also: Newcastle upon Tyne 42.1% · England 25.8%

SEN
22.4%
3% below district average (25.4%)

Also: Newcastle upon Tyne 17.5% · England 16.5%

EAL
16.7%
7.1% below district average (23.8%)
Attendance
92.6%
1.9% below district average (94.5%)

Also: Newcastle upon Tyne 90.6% · England 91.9%

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the NE6 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. Headline GCSE measures are 2024/25. Progress 8 is 2023/24 because the latest year is not published yet. England is the state-funded average from the same tables. Progress 8 of 0 is typical.

Persistent absence2024/25

21.1%

0.8% below England (21.9%)

Progress 82023/24

-0.92

0.92 below England (0.00)

Attainment 82024/25

35.5

11.2 below England (46.7)

Grade 5+ English & maths2024/25

21.9%

24.3% below England (46.2%)

Grade 4+ English & maths2024/25

47.5%

18.4% below England (65.9%)

Entered for EBacc2024/25

41.6%

0.5% above England (41.1%)

EBacc average point score2024/25

3.08

1.1 below England (4.14)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring term attendance from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN).

  • 90.7%
    2020/21
  • 87%
    2021/22
  • 87%
    2022/23
  • 88.1%
    2023/24
  • 88.6%
    2024/25

Admissions

Demand signal
About average
Published capacity (GIAS)
1301
Pupils on roll
1094

Indicative signal from published roll versus GIAS capacity. Not applications versus offers, and not a guarantee of a place.

Published admission number (PAN) and applications versus offers are not in our national datasets yet. Use your council booklet.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Newcastle upon Tyne page.

SEN support

SEN %
22.4%
On-site provision
SEN unit · ASD

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

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Aug 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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  • Methodology · Data updates