South Bank Community Primary School, Middlesbrough

The school runs a breakfast club.

In 2025, 54% of Year 6 pupils at South Bank Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 35% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 78% in Redcar and Cleveland and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 32% in reading and 35% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 42 families put South Bank Community Primary School as their first choice and 57 named it as one of their preferences, for 45 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to South Bank Community Primary School are St Margaret Clitherows RC Primary School (0.1 miles, Good, 56% reading, 66% maths); Lift Caldicotes (0.4 miles, Good, 85% reading, 88% maths); Teesville Academy (0.8 miles, Good, 86% reading, 79% maths); and Brambles Primary Academy (0.9 miles, Outstanding, 84% reading, 89% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than South Bank Community Primary School.

53.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 76 pupils (22%) received SEN support and 54 (15.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

South Bank Community Primary School has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs, autism, physical disability and moderate learning difficulties: 48 places, 48 pupils on roll.

South Bank Community Primary School had 22 teachers in 2026, one for every 14 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is South Bank Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Peter's Catholic Voluntary Academy (a), 160 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood South Bank Community Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 407 crimes within a mile of the school, most often shoplifting, violence and sexual offences and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Redcar and Cleveland (174), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, South Bank Community Primary School issued 7 suspensions, 2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The secondary schools closest to South Bank Community Primary School are St Peter's Catholic College (0.2 miles) and Outwood Academy Normanby (0.5 miles).