Easington Lane Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Houghton le Spring, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.545 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Easington Lane Primary School is a primary school in Houghton le Spring, Sunderland for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Easington Lane 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 | 0.545 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 entry in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.545 miles away, the 6th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance, and nearer than in 2024.
- For Reception entry in 2026 there were 37 first-choice applications for 37 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils 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.
- In 2024/25, 3% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
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
- High Street, Easington Lane, Houghton le Spring, DH5 0JT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 281 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this welcoming school.”
- “They say that teachers make learning fun.”
- “This is because activities in lessons help pupils to gain the knowledge they need for future learning.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not have sufficient opportunity in lessons to practise problem-solving in a range of contexts.”
- “Despite this, some pupils at the earliest stage of reading read books that contain sounds and words that they do not know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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) | 63% | 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: 37 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 37 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.
- Hetton Lyons Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hetton Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eppleton Academy Primary School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- East Rainton Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gillas Lane Primary Academy 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bernard Gilpin Primary School 2.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Burnside Academy Inspires 3.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published