Hetton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Houghton le Spring, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.518 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hetton 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 29 February 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Hetton 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 | 1.518 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2025 lived 1.518 miles away, the 28th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The Reception last distance in 2025 was about the same as in 2024.
- For Reception entry in 2026 there were 21 first-choice applications for 21 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 54% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest 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
- Moorsley Road, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton le Spring, DH5 9ND
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 February 2024
Strengths
- “Hetton Primary School is typified by warm and trusting relationships.”
- “Pupils enjoy being in school and take pleasure in the simplest of things, such as whizzing around the yard on a wheeled bodyboard.”
- “Teachers expect pupils to behave well and give their best.”
To improve
- “Not all subjects are equally well structured, however, meaning that there is an inconsistency of approach in some parts of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 April 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) | 54% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 21 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 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- East Rainton Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eppleton Academy Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Easington Lane Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gillas Lane Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bernard Gilpin Primary School 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Burnside Academy Inspires 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published