Seaburn Dene Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.052 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Seaburn Dene Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 October 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Seaburn Dene 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 | 2.052 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 80% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.052 miles away, which was further from the school than in 2024.
- For 2026 Reception, there were 24 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 10.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland is 34.3%.
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
- Torver Crescent, Seaburn Dene, Sunderland, SR6 8LG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 218 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 October 2023
Strengths
- “The school encourages pupils to ‘dream big, show determination and be respectful and kind’.”
- “They respond to this challenge.”
- “Pupils play and learn together in harmony.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects in the wider curriculum, such as music and computing, plans are not as well structured as they need to be.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not make the progress they should.”
- “In addition, the key knowledge that children need to know at the end of Reception, before they start the wider curriculum in Year 1, is unspecified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 November 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) | 80% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 24 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.
- Fulwell Infant School Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fulwell Junior School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Redby Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Southwick Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Grange Park Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Willow Wood Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published