Southwick Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Southwick, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.773 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Southwick Community Primary School is a primary school in Southwick, Sunderland for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 22 June 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Southwick Community 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 | 0.773 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 0.773 miles away, the 11th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024.
- In 2026, Reception had 31 first-choice applications for 33 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 51% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%).
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
- Shakespeare Street, Southwick, Shakespeare Street, Southwick, SR5 2JX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 345 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 22 June 2022
Strengths
- “Southwick Community Primary School is a happy place where pupils feel safe and thrive.”
- “Leaders have created a welcoming environment that promotes a sense of community.”
- “Parents and carers describe the school as, ‘the beating heart of the community’.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects in the foundation curriculum, such as history, leaders have not been precise enough in identifying the knowledge and skills they want pupils to learn over time.”
- “As a result, pupils do not always build their knowledge of important historical concepts, such as empire, well enough.”
- “In addition, some subject leaders do not monitor how well pupils are learning the revised curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (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) | 51% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 33 offers in total, 31 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.
- Grange Park Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Willow Wood Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Redby Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Seaburn Dene Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Fulwell Infant School Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fulwell Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade