Castletown Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
7.671 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Castletown Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Castletown 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 | 7.671 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 2025, the last child offered a place lived 7.671 miles from the school, further than in 2024.
- That Reception 2025 distance was the 2nd longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 1.89 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 29 first-choice applications for 29 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 76% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Grange Road, Castletown, Castletown Primary School, Sunderland, SR5 3EQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 347 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 22 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils embody the school values.”
- “They are welcoming, respectful, hardworking, caring and kind.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school and its grounds.”
To improve
- “Curriculum thinking in some subjects is not as well developed.”
- “The key knowledge pupils must remember lacks coherence and structure.”
- “In some subjects, assessment is over-complicated.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 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) | 76% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Hylton Castle Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Hylton Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Northern Saints Church of England Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Highfield Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bexhill Academy 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Town End Academy 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published