Battle Hill Primary School
General Information
- Address: Berwick Drive, Battle Hill Estate, Wallsend, NE28 9DH – View on map
- Phone: 01916071149
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Ruth Jobey
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 25 families put it first for 23 places – 11 for every 10 places. 92% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 129
- % eligible for free school meals: 47.4%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the North Tyneside average)
- English as an additional language: 7% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 0% a year (North Tyneside 9.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across North Tyneside: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 1 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in North Tyneside, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 32.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 52 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 28 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 45% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 20 percentage points below the North Tyneside average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 57% against an expected 50%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 57%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 74% · Writing 64% · Maths 52% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 55%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 100
- Based on: 42 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 41st of 46 junior and primary schools in the area
- =39King Edward Primary School48%
- =39St Columba's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend48%
- =41Battle Hill Primary School45%
- =41St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, North Shields45%
- #43Spring Gardens Primary School41%
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6th of 41 primary schools in North Tyneside for Ofsted rating
- #4Amberley Primary SchoolGood
- #5Appletree Gardens First SchoolGood
- #6Battle Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #7Carville AcademyGood
- #8Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,937 (2024-25)
24th of 54 primary schools in North Tyneside for spending per pupil
- #22St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend£6,993
- #23Appletree Gardens First School£6,951
- #24Battle Hill Primary School£6,937
- #25Spring Gardens Primary School£6,906
- #26St Columba's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend£6,800
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