Hylton Castle Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.493 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hylton Castle Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 July 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Hylton Castle 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 | 0.493 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 in 2025 lived 0.493 miles away, the 5th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.89 miles).
- For Reception 2026, there were 29 first-choice applications for 29 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 43% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 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
- Caithness Road, Hylton Castle, Sunderland, SR5 3RE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 229 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this inclusive and nurturing school.”
- “Pupils work hard in lessons in response to their teachers’ high expectations.”
- “Leaders are highly ambitious for all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, additional training is needed to make sure staff can successfully deliver this program with confidence and expertise.”
- “However, in subjects other than English and mathematics, some teachers do not choose learning activities that focus on the most important subject knowledge and skills.”
- “As a result, pupils struggle to remember their learning over time.”
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) | 43% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Bexhill Academy 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Town End Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castletown Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Northern Saints Church of England Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- South Hylton Primary Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willow Wood Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published