Grangetown Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.682 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grangetown Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 16 November 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Grangetown Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | 2.682 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 31.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 16.4 pupils per teacher; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland are 21.5% and 21.7.
- The 2025 Reception last distance offered was 2.682 miles, nearer than in 2024; it was the 17th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 35 first-choice applications for 37 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), but 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sunderland schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Spelter Works Road, Grangetown, Sunderland, SR2 8PX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 302 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 16 November 2022
Strengths
- “There is a strong sense of community at Grangetown Primary School.”
- “Pupils feel happy, safe and well cared for here.”
- “Pupils say the teachers are the best thing about their school.”
To improve
- “In a small number of cases, teachers do not address mistakes in pupils’ work, such as incorrect letter or number formation.”
- “This means that some pupils make the same mistakes repeatedly.”
- “However, occasionally, they are not precisely matched to pupils’ gaps in knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 63% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 35 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 35 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Sunderland.
- Valley Road Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hill View Junior Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained
- Hill View Infant Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Hudson Road Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.3 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Ryhope 1.4 mi Good Last distance published