Mill Hill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
12.368 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mill Hill Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Mill Hill 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 | 12.368 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2025 entry, the last child offered a place lived 12.368 miles away, the longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- For 2026 Reception entry, 66 first-choice applications for 60 offers: 52 offers went to first-choice families and 14 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 15.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.7% 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
- Torphin Hill Drive, Sunderland, SR3 2PJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 434 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Mill Hill Primary School are happy and motivated to try their best.”
- “The school has created a culture of high expectations in which pupils’ achievements are promoted and celebrated.”
- “The school’s values of ‘ready, respect and safe’ are embedded into school life.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, however, such curriculum refinements are fairly new, and there has not yet been enough time for these subjects to be fully embedded.”
- “However, for a few older pupils, some historical gaps in their phonetic ability remain.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 February 2024 (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) | 79% | 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: 66 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 52 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.
- New Silksworth Academy Infant 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 0.6 mi School remains Good
- St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Farringdon Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- East Herrington Primary Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade