Wingate Primary School
Church Street, Wingate, TS28 5AQ
This school is closed (it closed in September 2025).
It was replaced by Wingate Primary School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Marie-Louise Binks
- Constituency
- Easington
- Setting
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 420
- Pupils on roll
- 339
- URN
- 114149
- Local authority
- County Durham
About this school
Wingate Primary School was a community primary school in Wingate. It taught children aged 3 to 11 and had 339 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Wingate Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 47 | 60 | 45 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 62% | 48% | 60% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 68% | 62% | 64% |
| Expected standard in maths | 74% | 55% | 69% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 74% | 65% | 67% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 105.0 | 102.0 | 102.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 104.0 | 101.0 | 103.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.60 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -2.40 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -0.90 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Wingate Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | County Durham average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 62% | 58% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 48% | 58.4% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 60% | 60% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 6.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.4% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.3% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 347 |
| 2023/24 | 351 |
| 2024/25 | 339 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Wingate Primary School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 40% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 35% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 60% | 6.3% | 40.4% | 339 | — |
| Wingate Primary School | — | — | — | 347 | 0.0 miles |
| St Marys Catholic Primary School, Wingate | 31% | 5.8% | 47.3% | 67 | 0.1 miles |
| Deaf Hill Primary School | 69% | 8.3% | 56.8% | 154 | 1.4 miles |
| Hutton Henry CofE (Controlled) Primary School | — | — | — | 56 | 1.5 miles |
| Shotton Hall Primary School | 64% | 4.4% | 28.8% | 350 | 2.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 40.41%
- English as an additional language
- 2.4%
- Overall absence
- 6.29%
- Persistent absence
- 18.01%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Wingate Primary School0.0 miles
Primary · Wingate
-
St Marys Catholic Primary School, Wingate0.1 miles
Primary · Co Durham
-
Deaf Hill Primary School1.4 miles
Primary · Trimdon Station
-
Hutton Henry CofE (Controlled) Primary School1.5 miles
Primary · Hartlepool
-
Shotton Hall Primary School2.0 miles
Primary · Peterlee
Other schools in Wingate
- Wingate Primary School Primary
- Wingate Community Nursery School Nursery
- Wellfield School Secondary
Common questions
- What ages does Wingate Primary School teach?
- Wingate Primary School taught children aged 3 to 11. It was a primary school in Wingate.
- Has Wingate Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Wingate Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Wingate Primary School?
- Wingate Primary School had 339 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- How have Wingate Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 62% in 2022/23 and 60% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Wingate Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Wingate Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 September 2025.