St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Birtley

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

This year group had 17 pupils, so a single child moves the percentages above by about 5.9 points. Small cohorts move around a lot between years, so treat a single year's figures with care.

On the headline measure this school is in the lower half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll

105

Places

120

How full

88% full — 105 of 120 places taken

Girls / boys

43 / 62

Overall absence

4%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent

8%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years

31%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language

23%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan

4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support

16%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.

Source coverage

DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.

What this means

The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.

What this does not mean

The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price

£190,000

postcode sector DH3 2 · 214 sales

Typical range

£140,000 to £246,750

middle half of sales

Detached

£269,995

Semi-detached

£185,000

Terraced

£126,800

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree

28%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications

23%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work

8%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways

23%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health

40%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier

53%

England 62.7%

Social housing

31%

England 17%

Privately rented

12%

England 19.2%

Detached homes

42%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms

14%

England 22.5%

No car

31%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Gateshead 026C and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type

Academy converter

Phase

Primary

Ages

Ages 7–11

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

Sixth form

No

Nursery

No

Boarding

Day school

Trust

Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust

Headteacher

Headteacher: Kate Swaddle

Opened as this establishment

1 November 2021

Register status

Open

Local authority

Gateshead

Ward

Birtley

Constituency

Washington and Gateshead South

URN

148844

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record

Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Nearest primary schools

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.