Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 21 April 2026
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Beaufront First School on 21 April 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Expected standard for inclusion, for personal development and wellbeing, for attendance and behaviour and for early years; Needs attention for achievement, for curriculum and teaching and for leadership and governance.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day.
No. Distance only counts when Beaufront First School has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by the local authority, Northumberland, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Beaufront First School had 66 pupils aged 4 to 9 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 75. It is a mixed school.