Pallister Park Primary School
Middlesbrough, TS3 8PW · Middlesbrough local authority
Middlesbrough’s School Grade C+ better than 41% of towns in England
What stands out about Pallister Park Primary School
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 26% of England’s primary schools
- 54% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points below England’s schools
- Over capacity: 600 pupils for 525 places
- 70% 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 (55 of 55)
- Homes in its postcode sector (TS3 8) sold for a median £100,000; Middlesbrough’s is £155,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 54%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 26% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Middlesbrough avg 63%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 58 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 Pallister Park Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (13). 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. Our Children 1st sets the admissions rules. Apply through Middlesbrough 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
Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough, side by side
2023–2025All 41 graded primaries in Middlesbrough. 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. Middlesbrough’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lingfield Primary School | A+ | 15% | 85% |
| Beech Grove Primary School | A | 74% | 81% |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | A | 17% | 81% |
| Chandlers Ridge Academy | A | 10% | 81% |
| Linthorpe Community Primary School | A | 50% | 80% |
| Captain Cook Primary School | A | 13% | 79% |
| Lift Caldicotes | A | 75% | 78% |
| Brambles Primary Academy | A | 70% | 77% |
| Kader Academy | A | 19% | 76% |
| The Avenue Primary School | A− | 8% | 75% |
| Rose Wood Academy | B+ | 26% | 70% |
| St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 11% | 70% |
| Archibald Primary School | B+ | 63% | 70% |
| Thorntree Academy | B+ | 72% | 70% |
| Whinney Banks Primary School | B+ | 46% | 69% |
| Marton Manor Primary School | B+ | 17% | 69% |
| Green Lane Primary Academy | B+ | 30% | 68% |
| Newham Bridge Primary School | B | 51% | 67% |
| Abingdon Primary School | B | 54% | 65% |
| St Clare's RC Primary School | B− | 4% | 64% |
| St Alphonsus' Catholic Primary School | B− | 30% | 63% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B− | 34% | 63% |
| Lift North Ormesby | B− | 52% | 61% |
| Acklam Whin Primary School | B− | 9% | 61% |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 12% | 59% |
| Hemlington Hall Academy | C+ | 45% | 59% |
| Easterside Academy | C | 51% | 56% |
| Sacred Heart Primary School | C | 44% | 56% |
| Pennyman Primary Academy | C | 70% | 55% |
| Pallister Park Primary School | C | 70% | 54% |
| Breckon Hill Primary School | C | 56% | 54% |
| Viewley Hill Academy | C− | 58% | 53% |
| Newport Primary School | C− | 58% | 52% |
| Park End Primary School | C− | 71% | 50% |
| St Gerard's RC Primary School | C− | 30% | 50% |
| St Thomas More RC Primary School | D | 34% | 45% |
| Ayresome Primary School | D | 59% | 45% |
| Corpus Christi RC Primary School | D | 50% | 43% |
| St Pius X Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy | D | 45% | 41% |
| Berwick Hills Primary School | D− | 77% | 38% |
| Sunnyside Academy | D− | 41% | 34% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025637 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
Pallister Park 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: School remains Good, July 2024.
Living near Pallister Park Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in TS3 8, the school’s postcode sector
Middlesbrough property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in TS3 8 sell for well under Middlesbrough’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
27 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Middlesbrough, TS3 8PW
Pallister Park Primary School: common questions
Is Pallister Park Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 26% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 54% 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 Pallister Park Primary School?
For September 2026, 55 families put Pallister Park Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 56 places were offered in all.
What is Pallister Park Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2024).
How much do houses cost near Pallister Park Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, TS3 8, sold for a median £100,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (80 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; Middlesbrough’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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