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Area guide · South Tyneside

Living in Tyne & Wear with children

Tyne & Wear, South Tyneside. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.

1schools in Tyne & Wear
87%gigabit broadband

Schools

1 schools: 1 state primary, 0 state secondaryTyne & Wear on the schools map →
Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: South Tyneside 62%ResultOfsted
1East Boldon Junior SchoolPrimary · Top 15% (6/41) · 81%Ofsted report card
Every school in Tyne & Wear, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (1)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
East Boldon Junior SchoolOfsted report cardTop 15% (6/41) in South Tyneside—
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Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)

We don't hold Land Registry sales for Tyne & Wear yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
2railway stations within 2 km: East Boldon (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) (0.4 miles); East Boldon Rail Station (0.5 miles)
21bus stops within 1 km of the middle of its schools

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 97%, on average across the 201 postcodes in NE36. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
not heldCrimeWe don't hold police.uk figures for Tyne & Wear yet.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the middle of its schools, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 9.5AirAt the middle of its schools, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 9.5 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 6.0 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 10.2 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
1registered nurseries and pre-schools
unknownnone of their fees is held yet

What Ofsted found: 1 outstanding. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 1 in South Tyneside.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, South Tyneside

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: South Tyneside.

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Nearby towns

East BoldonBoldonBoldon CollierySouthwickSouth ShieldsJarrowHebburnNorth Shields
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.