East Boldon Junior School, Tyne & Wear

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades East Boldon Junior School on 6 areas: 3 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils' academic outcomes at this school are impressive."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have a secure understanding of the curriculum's strengths and areas for development."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have built an effective programme of personal development and wellbeing over time."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders, staff and pupils are clear about expectations for high attendance and positive behaviour."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have created a highly inclusive school where all pupils feel welcome and supported."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and governors place pupils' interests at the centre of decision-making."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should improve the rigour with which they draw together and analyse information across inclusion and behaviour, this work should directly inform strategic actions to adapt and improve provision for pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities"; "Governors should review the methods they use to assure themselves of the quality of leaders' work, in line with their statutory duties, so that they can even more robustly challenge leaders across all areas of the school's work".

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In 2025, 95% of Year 6 pupils at East Boldon Junior School reached the expected standard in reading and 93% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 76% in South Tyneside and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 87% in reading and 93% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

Across South Tyneside, 97% of families were offered their first-choice primary school for 2026 entry, and 99% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2026, families in South Tyneside lodged 49 appeals against primary school offers; 40 reached a hearing and 8 succeeded (20% of those heard).

The nearest other state primary schools to East Boldon Junior School are East Boldon Infants' School (under 0.1 miles, Good); West Boldon Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 86% reading, 86% maths); Forest View Primary (0.7 miles, Good, 76% reading, 82% maths); and Cleadon Church of England Academy (1.1 miles, Good, 86% reading, 86% maths).

East Boldon Junior School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

10.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 1.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest tram or metro stop is East Boldon (Tyne and Wear Metro Station), about 700 metres away (roughly a 9-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Front Street (e-bound), 100 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood East Boldon Junior School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 85 crimes within a mile of the school, most often shoplifting, violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in South Tyneside (182).

In 2024/25, East Boldon Junior School issued 3 suspensions, 1.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to East Boldon Junior School are Boldon School (0.7 miles) and Red House Academy (1.2 miles).