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Jesmond Gardens Primary School

PrimaryAges 2–11Academy

Hartlepool, TS24 8PJ · Hartlepool local authority

Hartlepool’s School Grade B− better than 52% of towns in England

Its letter
45%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
42/42
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
355 pupils
99% of its 357 places
Free school meals
52%
52 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Jesmond Gardens Primary School

  • Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 45% of England’s primary schools
  • 52% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (42 of 42)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TS24 8) sold for a median £84,975; Hartlepool’s is £144,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 61%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 45% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hartlepool avg 66%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Jesmond Gardens Primary 61%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading60%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)64%
England’s schools 73%
Maths78%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling62%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 27 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
48%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
78%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three9%
England’s schools 8% · Hartlepool 10% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Jesmond Gardens Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

42
families put it first for September 2026
42
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (11), 2020 (13), 2021 (1), 2022 (12), 2024 (7), 2025 (12). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Eden Academy Trust Limited sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hartlepool council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Hartlepool, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.03 per place
94% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Jesmond Gardens Primary
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Hartlepool and Hartlepool, side by side

2023–2025

All 30 graded primaries in Hartlepool. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Hartlepool’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%47%59%71%83%95%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Jesmond Gardens
ABCDElsewhere in HartlepoolJesmond Gardens Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Peter's Elwick Church of England Primary SchoolA+6%92%
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, HartlepoolA+27%91%
Greatham CofE Primary SchoolA+18%85%
St Helen's Primary SchoolA52%79%
Fens Primary SchoolA22%76%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, HartlepoolA−23%75%
Eskdale AcademyA−62%72%
Stranton Primary SchoolA−63%72%
Rift House Primary SchoolA−66%71%
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolA−17%71%
Eldon Grove AcademyB+22%69%
Throston Primary SchoolB+25%68%
Brougham Primary SchoolB+70%68%
Hart Primary SchoolB+9%68%
Clavering Primary SchoolB+25%68%
Barnard Grove Primary SchoolB35%67%
West Park Primary SchoolB6%65%
St Aidan's Church of England Memorial Primary SchoolB−50%63%
Jesmond Gardens Primary SchoolB−52%61%
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, HartlepoolB−30%61%
Kingsley Primary SchoolC+46%60%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, HartlepoolC+55%60%
Rossmere AcademyC+50%59%
Grange Primary SchoolC+68%59%
St Bega's Catholic Primary School, HartlepoolC+41%58%
St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolC24%57%
Ward Jackson Church of England Primary SchoolC69%55%
West View Primary SchoolC−69%53%
Lynnfield Primary SchoolD64%42%
Golden Flatts Primary SchoolD−61%36%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

376 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
22.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
51.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

Jesmond Gardens Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B−Better than 45% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, July 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Jesmond Gardens Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TS24 8, the school’s postcode sector

Hartlepool property prices →
£84,975
median sale, 172 sales in 36 months · Hartlepool £144,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K2010201520202025TS24 8Hartlepool
TS24 8Hartlepool

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£110K
Terraced
£76K
Flat
£60K
TS24 8Hartlepool

Homes in TS24 8 sell for well under Hartlepool’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+B+A−C−BB+A−C+C−BB+A−C+C+B−DA+CB+DB−Jesmond Gardens Primary Sch…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hartlepool, TS24 8PJ

Jesmond Gardens Primary School: common questions

Is Jesmond Gardens Primary School a good school?

By its published results, about average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 45% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 61% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, July 2024.

How hard is it to get into Jesmond Gardens Primary School?

For September 2026, 42 families put Jesmond Gardens Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 42 places were offered in all.

What is Jesmond Gardens Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2024).

How much do houses cost near Jesmond Gardens Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TS24 8, sold for a median £84,975 over the 36 months to August 2026 (172 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Hartlepool’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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