West Lane Primary School
Primary · Blaydon-on-Tyne · NE21 6PH
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 2 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
305 pupils · 72% of 424 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.wwlcp.school
- URN
- 108346
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.97 first-choice applications per place32 places offered · 31 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
58 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
93% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 1 November 2022: School remains Good
- 18 May 2017: Good
- 10 December 2015: Not taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Parkhead Community Primary School
- St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blaydon
- Blaydon West Primary School
- St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Blaydon
- Crookhill Community Primary School
- Rowlands Gill Community Primary School
- St George's Catholic Primary School, Bells Close