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Schools in Hebburn

Reviewed by the catchment.school editorial team · Last updated 15 March 2026

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)

Secondary Schools in Hebburn (2)

Other Schools in Hebburn (3)

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.

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