Whale Hill Primary School
Eston, TS6 8AD · Redcar and Cleveland local authority
Eston’s School Grade C better than 26% of towns in England
What stands out about Whale Hill Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 89% of England’s primary schools
- 78% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16 points above England’s schools
- 50% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (59 of 59)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TS6 8) sold for a median £85,000; Eston’s is £149,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 78%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 89% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Redcar and Cleveland avg 66%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 113 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 29 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 Whale Hill 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. Steel River Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Redcar and Cleveland council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Eston and Redcar and Cleveland, side by side
2023–2025All 44 graded primaries in Redcar and Cleveland. 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. Eston’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Badger Hill Academy | A+ | 21% | 91% |
| Newcomen Primary School | A+ | 20% | 89% |
| Wilton Primary Academy | A+ | 33% | 84% |
| Bankfields Primary School | A | 54% | 82% |
| Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy | A | 15% | 80% |
| Wheatlands Primary School | A | 9% | 79% |
| Westgarth Primary School | A | 11% | 78% |
| Whale Hill Primary School | A | 50% | 78% |
| Lockwood Primary School | A | 14% | 77% |
| Green Gates Primary School | A | 66% | 77% |
| Saltburn Primary School | A | 25% | 77% |
| Nunthorpe Primary Academy | A | 14% | 76% |
| Handale Primary School | A | 51% | 76% |
| Lingdale Primary School | A | 79% | 76% |
| St Bede's Catholic Primary School | A− | 10% | 74% |
| Normanby Primary School | B+ | 21% | 70% |
| Chaloner Primary School | B+ | 47% | 70% |
| Coatham Church of England Primary School | B+ | 26% | 69% |
| Teesville Academy | B+ | 32% | 69% |
| St Benedict's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 32% | 68% |
| Whitecliffe Academy | B | 54% | 67% |
| Ings Farm Primary School | B | 13% | 67% |
| Skelton Primary School | B | 32% | 66% |
| Saint Gabriel's Catholic Primary School | B | 37% | 66% |
| Zetland Primary School | B | 34% | 66% |
| Galley Hill Primary School | B | 5% | 65% |
| Errington Primary School | B− | 25% | 63% |
| Belmont Primary School | B− | 12% | 62% |
| Hummersea Primary School | B− | 45% | 61% |
| Highcliffe Primary School | B− | 34% | 61% |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | C+ | 44% | 60% |
| Saint Paulinus Catholic Primary School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy | C+ | 8% | 59% |
| Grangetown Primary School | C+ | 75% | 59% |
| Caedmon Primary School | C+ | 74% | 58% |
| Riverdale Primary School | C | 34% | 56% |
| John Emmerson Batty Primary School | C | 29% | 54% |
| Ormesby Primary School | C− | 31% | 52% |
| St Margaret Clitherows RC Primary School | C− | 38% | 51% |
| Overfields Primary School | C− | 55% | 51% |
| Dormanstown Primary Academy | D | 66% | 47% |
| New Marske Primary School | D | 25% | 46% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | D | 55% | 41% |
| Lakes Primary School | D | 44% | 41% |
| South Bank Community Primary School | D− | 57% | 27% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025465 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
Whale Hill 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.
Report card, inspection starting January 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, October 2021.
Living near Whale Hill Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TS6 8, the school’s postcode sector
Eston property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TS6 8 sell for well under Eston’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
12 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Eston, TS6 8AD
Whale Hill Primary School: common questions
Is Whale Hill Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 89% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 78% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in January 2026.
How hard is it to get into Whale Hill Primary School?
For September 2026, 59 families put Whale Hill Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 62 places were offered in all.
What is Whale Hill Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Whale Hill Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, TS6 8, sold for a median £85,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (64 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; Eston’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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