East Rainton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Houghton le Spring, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.034 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
East Rainton Primary School is a primary school in Houghton le Spring, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 June 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
East Rainton 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 | 2.034 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 28% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2025 entry, the last child offered a place lived 2.034 miles away, the 32nd longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception entry in 2026 drew 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 27.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.3% 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
- School Road, East Rainton, Houghton le Spring, DH5 9RA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 101 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 June 2023
Strengths
- “This school is at the heart of the local community.”
- “This was illustrated recently when the village joined together to celebrate the school’s 90th birthday.”
- “Pupils proudly undertake charity work to support local causes.”
To improve
- “However, at times, staff do not place enough emphasis on pupils learning to recall their letters and sounds speedily.”
- “This makes it harder for pupils to learn to read quickly with fluency.”
- “At times, some of the activities planned for children in the Reception Year do not enable them to learn the curriculum as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 July 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) | 72% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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 Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hetton Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bernard Gilpin Primary School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Eppleton Academy Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hetton Lyons Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gillas Lane Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dubmire Primary 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Burnside Academy Inspires 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published