Portobello Primary School Overview

Portobello Primary School is a primary school located in Chester le Street and reports to the local authority of Gateshead.

Portobello Primary School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 4 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 189 students but currently enrols 196 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Portobello Primary School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 92.3% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 5.1% of students at the school.

15.3% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Portobello Primary School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

School Type

Primary

Age Range

4 - 11 years old

Gender

Mixed School

Religion

Does not apply

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Portobello Primary School

Tamerton Drive
Chester le Street
DH3 2LY

01914104571

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Local Authority
Gateshead

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted Rating

Good

Last Inspection

26th October 2023

(2 years, 7 months, 9 days ago)

School Rank

5176

Ranked 5,176 of 13,434 Primary Schools

Current Capacity

Overall Capacity

Gender Capacity

Student Ethnicities

1st Language

Free School Meals

Special Education Needs (SEN)

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