Schools in Hebburn
Hebburn's 11 schools are administered by South Tyneside Council, with 6 primaries and 2 secondaries — Hebburn Comprehensive School and an academy partner — serving this Tyne estuary town between Jarrow and Gateshead. South Tyneside uses straight-line distance as the oversubscription tiebreaker. Ten of Hebburn's 11 schools carry a faith designation, predominantly Church of England and Roman Catholic.
Hebburn Comprehensive School is the main state non-selective secondary, drawing from a catchment that includes Hebburn, Monkton, Pelaw and parts of Jarrow. Four of the town's schools are academies with independent admissions criteria. South Tyneside's coordinated admissions round opens each September, and families should note that the high proportion of faith primaries means actively attending a place of worship can be decisive for securing a primary place.
Hebburn Lakes Primary School serves newer residential developments on the town's periphery, while older established primaries like Toner Avenue concentrate in the historic town centre. South Tyneside publishes offer statistics annually; historical furthest-distance data through catchment.school is the most reliable tool for assessing which Hebburn primary or secondary is realistically accessible from a given postcode.
School demand in Hebburn
Across the 9 schools in Hebburn with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 97%. 4 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
5 schools in Hebburn have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
4 of the schools in Hebburn are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of South Tyneside, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
4 of the schools in Hebburn have a current Ofsted rating, of which 3 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Hebburn: 3 oversubscribed (6)
Toner Avenue Primary School
Primary · Community school
Hebburn · NE31 2LJ
St Oswald's CofE Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Hebburn · NE31 1HT
Hebburn Lakes Primary School
Primary · Community school
Hebburn · NE31 2SL
St Aloysius Catholic Junior School Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Hebburn · NE31 1BQ
St Aloysius Catholic Infant School, Hebburn
Primary · Academy converter
Hebburn · NE31 1RZ
St James' Catholic Primary School, Hebburn
Primary · Academy converter
HEBBURN · NE31 2BP
Secondary Schools in Hebburn (2)
Other Schools in Hebburn (3)
The Sue Hedley Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school
Hebburn · NE31 1QY
Keelman's Way School
Not applicable · Foundation special school
Hebburn · NE31 1QY
Groundwork South and North Tyneside
Not applicable · Special post 16 institution
Hebburn · NE31 1SR
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Hebburn are set by South Tyneside and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.