Appletree Gardens First SchoolSouthridge First School

Inspection, results, pupils and attendance side by side in Whitley Bay.

Summary of the comparison

Appletree Gardens First School and Southridge First School are primary schools in Whitley Bay.

Appletree Gardens First School scores 68 out of 100 (grade C, average) and Southridge First School scores 77 out of 100 (grade B, strong). Southridge First School is ahead on our composite score.
Appletree Gardens First School was judged Good and Southridge First School was judged Good.

Appletree Gardens First School versus Southridge First School compared on inspection, results, pupils and attendance.
Measure	Whitley BayAppletree Gardens First School	Whitley BaySouthridge First School	England average
Overview
Our score	C68/100	B77/100Stronger figure
Local ranking	50th of 53 in North Tyneside	45th of 53 in North Tyneside Stronger figure
Inspection	Ofsted: Good	Ofsted: Good
School type	Foundation school	Community school
Phase	Primary	Primary
Age range	2-9	3-9
Gender	Mixed	Mixed
Pupils on roll	345	339
Capacity	293	352
Location	Whitley Bay, NE25 8XS	Whitley Bay, NE25 9UD
Pupils
Pupils in the census	345	339
Free school meals (ever 6)	32.7%	6.0%
English as an additional language	7.8%	3.2%
SEN support	12.8%	5.0%
SEN with an EHC plan	1.7%	0.9%
Attendance
Overall absence	5.2%	2.2% Stronger figure	6.2%
Persistent absence	16.0%	2.5% Stronger figure	15.8%

marks the stronger figure on measures with a clear direction. Rows describing a school's intake, such as free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN, carry no marker: they describe who a school serves, not how well it serves them.

Historical trends

Each solid line is one school; the dashed line is the national average.

Overall absence

Free school meal eligibility (ever 6)

Pupils on roll

Ethnicity over time

One panel per school: the largest groups across this comparison, one colour per group, on a shared scale.