St Helen's Primary School
Hartlepool, TS24 0HG · Hartlepool local authority
Hartlepool’s School Grade B− better than 52% of towns in England
What stands out about St Helen's Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 90% of England’s primary schools
- 79% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17 points above England’s schools
- Room to spare: 268 pupils for 374 places
- 52% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 28)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TS24 0) sold for a median £132,976; Hartlepool’s is £144,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 79%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 90% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hartlepool avg 66%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at St Helen's Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Northern Lights Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hartlepool council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Hartlepool and Hartlepool, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Peter's Elwick Church of England Primary School | A+ | 6% | 92% |
| St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | A+ | 27% | 91% |
| Greatham CofE Primary School | A+ | 18% | 85% |
| St Helen's Primary School | A | 52% | 79% |
| Fens Primary School | A | 22% | 76% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | A− | 23% | 75% |
| Eskdale Academy | A− | 62% | 72% |
| Stranton Primary School | A− | 63% | 72% |
| Rift House Primary School | A− | 66% | 71% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | A− | 17% | 71% |
| Eldon Grove Academy | B+ | 22% | 69% |
| Throston Primary School | B+ | 25% | 68% |
| Brougham Primary School | B+ | 70% | 68% |
| Hart Primary School | B+ | 9% | 68% |
| Clavering Primary School | B+ | 25% | 68% |
| Barnard Grove Primary School | B | 35% | 67% |
| West Park Primary School | B | 6% | 65% |
| St Aidan's Church of England Memorial Primary School | B− | 50% | 63% |
| Jesmond Gardens Primary School | B− | 52% | 61% |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | B− | 30% | 61% |
| Kingsley Primary School | C+ | 46% | 60% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | C+ | 55% | 60% |
| Rossmere Academy | C+ | 50% | 59% |
| Grange Primary School | C+ | 68% | 59% |
| St Bega's Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | C+ | 41% | 58% |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | C | 24% | 57% |
| Ward Jackson Church of England Primary School | C | 69% | 55% |
| West View Primary School | C− | 69% | 53% |
| Lynnfield Primary School | D | 64% | 42% |
| Golden Flatts Primary School | D− | 61% | 36% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025270 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.
Girls and boys
St Helen's Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, April 2025.
Living near St Helen's Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TS24 0, the school’s postcode sector
Hartlepool property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TS24 0 sell for a little 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
5 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Hartlepool, TS24 0HG
St Helen's Primary School: common questions
Is St Helen's Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 90% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 79% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025.
How hard is it to get into St Helen's Primary School?
For September 2026, 28 families put St Helen's Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 28 places were offered in all.
What is St Helen's Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).
How much do houses cost near St Helen's Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, TS24 0, sold for a median £132,976 over the 36 months to August 2026 (270 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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