Thorney Close Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
5.553 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Thorney Close Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 September 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Thorney Close 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 | 5.553 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, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 5.553 miles away, the 7th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- 49.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland is 40.2%.
- There are 15.6 pupils per teacher, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland is 20.8.
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
- Torquay Road, Sunderland, SR3 4BB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 289 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 September 2023
Strengths
- “Thorney Close Primary School is a place where pupils thrive.”
- “The school’s motto, ‘where learning blossoms’, encompasses the school’s belief that all pupils have a right to a high-quality education.”
- “The school ensures that opportunities apply equally to all pupils, irrespective of the barriers they may face in life.”
To improve
- “However, a number of pupils do not attend school regularly enough.”
- “While the school has some effective strategies to improve the attendance of individual pupils, too many pupils are absent from school on a regular basis.”
- “However, it is too early to see the impact of this work.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 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: 33 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 33 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.
- Hasting Hill Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Farringdon Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broadway Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Plains Farm Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Grindon Infant School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- East Herrington Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Barnes Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good