Durham Gilesgate Primary School
Primary · Durham · DH1 1PH
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 16 May 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
164 pupils · 78% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 57.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 33.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 24.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 7.5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 114211
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place24 places offered · 24 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)
26 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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 16 May 2023: Good
- 7 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 25 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 5 June 2019: Requires improvement
- 26 April 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, Durham
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
- Laurel Avenue Community Primary School
- Belmont Community School
- Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary School
- St Thomas More Primary School, Belmont
- Durham Sixth Form Centre
- Belmont Cheveley Park Primary School