Whitehouse Primary School

Primary school in North Shields, North Tyneside. Inadequate (Jul 2022). Serious weaknesses.

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 12 July 2022, report published 9 November 2022, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

Serious weaknesses. Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern.

This grade was given to Whitehouse Primary School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. Whitehouse Primary School hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.

Inadequate overall. The lowest grade. The school had serious problems. 2% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Inadequate.

Grades for each area
Area	Grade
Quality of education	Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes	Inadequate
Personal development	Requires improvement
Leadership and management	Requires improvement
Early years	Good
Safeguarding effective	Yes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around July 2026

The last inspection was in July 2022. Schools are usually inspected about every four years. It’s now later than the usual gap, so an inspection could happen at any time.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2027 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

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Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.