Living in Wallsend with children
Wallsend, North Tyneside. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 45,351 people in 21,231 households; 26.5% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
15 schools: 13 state primary, 2 state secondaryWallsend on the schools map →Every school in Wallsend, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (13)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redesdale Primary School | School remains Good | Top 14% (6/46) in North Tyneside | 1.82 miles (2026) |
| Western Community Primary School | Good | Top 22% (10/46) in North Tyneside | 1.846 miles (2026) |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend | Standards maintained | Top 24% (11/46) in North Tyneside | 2.034 miles (2026) |
| St Bernadette's Catholic Primary, Wallsend | School remains Good | Top 46% (21/46) in North Tyneside | 2.21 miles (2026) |
| Denbigh Community Primary School | Outstanding | Top 48% (22/46) in North Tyneside | 5.743 miles (2026) |
| Hadrian Park Primary School | School remains Good | Top 50% (23/46) in North Tyneside | 2.136 miles (2026) |
| Stephenson Memorial Primary School | School remains Good | (29/46) in North Tyneside | 1.727 miles (2026) |
| Wallsend Jubilee Primary School | School remains Good | (31/46) in North Tyneside | 6.039 miles (2026) |
| Richardson Dees Primary School | Good | (36/46) in North Tyneside | 0.513 miles (2026) |
| St Columba's Catholic Primary School, Wallsend | Standards maintained | (39/46) in North Tyneside | 5.693 miles (2026) |
| Battle Hill Primary School | School remains Good | (40/46) in North Tyneside | 1.92 miles (2025) |
| Carville Academy | Requires improvement | (46/46) in North Tyneside | 0.342 miles (2026) |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Requires improvement | — | 1.61 miles (2026) |
State secondary schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnside College | Good | (10/11) in North Tyneside | 1.287 miles (2026) |
| Churchill Academy | — | — | 1.967 miles (2026) |
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)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (48 detached, 135 semi-detached, 149 terraced, 73 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Wallsend. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Wallsend →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 96% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 938 postcodes in NE28. 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 varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 2 outstanding; 9 good, or expected standard; 1 inadequate, or safeguarding not met; 1 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 13 in North Tyneside.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 12 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.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, North Tyneside
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