Alternative Education Service - The Beacon Centre
Temple Park Road, South Shields, NE34 0QA
- Type
- Pupil referral unit
- Ages
- 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Local authority
- South Tyneside
- Free school meals
- 83.3%
Ofsted
Good (2023) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system
This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.
Inspected 28 March 2023, published 22 May 2023. Read the full Ofsted report
England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.
Nearby alternatives
- Park View School 0.2 km · Good (2024) · previous system
- Epinay Business and Enterprise School 2 km · Outstanding — confirmed 2023 · previous system
- Bamburgh School 2.1 km · No overall grade (2024)
- Groundwork South and North Tyneside 4.8 km · No Ofsted rating
- Keelman's Way School 4.9 km · Good — confirmed 2024 · previous system
- Southlands School 5.2 km · Good (2024) · previous system
Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.
Data from DfE and Ofsted open data (OGL v3) — sources. School record updated 10 July 2026. Report incorrect data.