Shiney Row Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Houghton le Spring, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.594 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shiney Row 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 29 June 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Shiney Row 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 | 2.594 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, 71% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 2.594 miles away, the 19th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 22 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals and there are 17.1 pupils per teacher; the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland have middle figures of 21.6% and 20.6.
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
- Rear South View, Shiney Row, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4QP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 249 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 June 2022
Strengths
- “Senior leaders, governors and staff are ambitious for every pupil at school.”
- “They have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and learning.”
- “Their behaviour and attitudes to learning are admirable.”
To improve
- “Teachers’ checks on what pupils know and remember in history are less developed.”
- “This means that teachers sometimes do not identify gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
- “Some pupils do not attend school often enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (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) | 71% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 22 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.
- Barnwell Academy 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, Penshaw 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- New Penshaw Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Newbottle Primary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Burnside Academy Inspires 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fatfield Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dubmire Primary 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bernard Gilpin Primary School 2.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published