Yohden Primary School, Peterlee

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils at Yohden Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 62% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in County Durham and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 69% in reading and 72% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 22 families put Yohden Primary School as their first choice and 51 named it as one of their preferences, for 24 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 Yohden Primary School are Cotsford Primary School (0.1 miles, Good, 74% reading, 79% maths); Dene House Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 78% reading, 74% maths); Seascape Academy (0.8 miles); and Seascape Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 33% reading, 11% maths).

Yohden Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

40.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 9.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 54 pupils (29.7%) received SEN support and 12 (6.6%) 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 a moderate learning difficulty.

Yohden Primary School has a resourced provision for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia: 20 places, 0 pupils on roll.

Yohden Primary School had 10 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Horden, about 360 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Comrades Club (w-bound), 70 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Yohden Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 224 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in County Durham (84), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Yohden Primary School issued 5 suspensions, 3.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Yohden Primary School are Dene Academy (0.4 miles) and St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College (1.6 miles).