Grindon Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.315 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grindon Infant School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–7 (community school). Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Grindon Infant 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 | 3.315 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2025 the last child offered a place lived 3.315 miles away, the 13th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- That 2025 Reception distance was further than in 2024; across the 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance, the middle figure was 1.89 miles.
- Reception 2026 saw 42 first-choice applications for 43 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 33.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 44.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
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
- Gleneagles Road, Sunderland, SR4 9QN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 163 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 20 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils benefit from the clear vision and high expectations leaders have for them.”
- “Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, are supported to build their learning in small manageable steps so that they develop their knowledge and skills in meaningful ways.”
- “This is a calm and caring school.”
To improve
- “However, despite progress from their starting points, over time, too many pupils lack the skills to confidently decode and read with fluency by the time they leave the school.”
- “Leaders, including governors, know that this focused work on attendance remains a priority to further build on recent improvements.”
- “In some curriculum areas, however, these adaptations are not as well matched to pupils' learning and needs as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 42 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 42 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.
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hasting Hill Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Broadway Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Thorney Close Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Hylton Primary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Farringdon Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- East Herrington Primary Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published