Overall Oxbridge
#1,144
4 ranked schools · -230 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
20
Offers
3
Offer rate15.0%
-7.4 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
A post-industrial borough of nearly 200,000 on Tyneside's southern shore, Gateshead has rebuilt its public identity around cultural landmarks born of the 1990s waterfront regeneration. The Angel of the North, a twenty-metre steel sculpture installed at the town's southern outskirts in 1998, is among Britain's most recognised public artworks, while the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and The Glasshouse International Centre for Music line a regenerated quayside beneath the Tyne and Millennium bridges. Gateshead was once part of County Durham.
Tyne and Wear Metro services run across the borough, and Newcastle Central, a short river crossing away, gives intercity access to Leeds and Edinburgh. Lobley Hill and Bensham are among the most sought-after pockets for primary school catchments, with Beacon Lough equally school-competitive; Dunston and Low Fell complete the family residential spread to the south and west.
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Area Performance
Across 51 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.30/10, -0.11 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Gateshead schools
Gateshead vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Gateshead schools
top 52% of 14,978
top 52% of 14,978
top 44% of 3,862
top 44% of 3,862
top 57% of 2,555
top 57% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
4 ranked schools · -230 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
20
Offers
3
Oxford
2 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
12
Offers
0
Cambridge
3 ranked schools · +92 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
8
Offers
3
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