Lambton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.356 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lambton Primary School is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 July 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Lambton 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 | 3.356 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, 38% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- The Reception 2025 last distance offered was 3.356 miles, further than in 2024 and the 12th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 20 first-choice applications for 20 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 30.2% of pupils, against a middle figure of 16.1% 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
- Caradoc Close, Lambton Village, Washington, NE38 0PL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 179 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 July 2024
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming school, where adults ensure that pupils feel safe and are ready to learn.”
- “Staff, who have excellent subject knowledge, teach an ambitious curriculum.”
- “Teachers ensure that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/ or disabilities (SEND), access learning.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils have poor handwriting skills.”
- “This includes incorrect letter formation and lack of joining letters, which affects pupils’ fluency and coherence.”
- “However, some parents and pupils express a negative view of behaviour in school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 September 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) | 38% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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.
- Holley Park Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oxclose Primary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Biddick Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blackfell Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rickleton Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fatfield Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published