Biddick Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.126 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Biddick Primary School is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 20 November 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Biddick 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 | 3.126 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, 83% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- In 2024/25, 15% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
- For Reception entry in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 3.126 miles away, the 15th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance, and nearer than in 2024.
- For Reception entry in 2026 there were 23 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Kirkham, Biddick Village, Washington, NE38 7HQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 285 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 20 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this happy school.”
- “Staff do all that they can to make sure pupils are nurtured to be the best version of themselves.”
- “Pupils respond positively to the endless support they receive.”
To improve
- “Pupils’ outcomes at the higher standard are much more variable.”
- “This is because in some subjects, planned activities do not provide pupils with opportunities to use and apply their knowledge and think more deeply about their learning as consistently as leaders intend.”
- “However, opportunities to apply their knowledge to draw conclusions and evaluate investigations are much less frequent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 December 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) | 83% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 23 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.
- Wessington Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- John F Kennedy Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Barmston Village Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Lambton Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oxclose Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Fatfield Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published