Walker Riverside Academy Overview

Walker Riverside Academy is a secondary & 6th form school located in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and reports to the local authority of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Walker Riverside Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 18 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1301 students but currently only enrols 1109 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Walker Riverside Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 76.6% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 17.8% of students at the school.

66.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Walker Riverside Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities