Gateshead School Catchment Areas

Gateshead coordinates admissions across 66 primary and 9 secondary schools, with oversubscription criteria applied consistently across the authority.

The largest concentrations sit around Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ryton, which together account for a meaningful share of the council's pupil places.

Around 23% of schools in Gateshead have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.