Blackfell Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.485 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blackfell Primary School is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (community school). Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Blackfell 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 | 3.485 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 80% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 15% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2025 entry, the last child offered a place lived 3.485 miles away, the 11th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- For 2026 Reception entry, 14 first-choice applications for 15 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 37.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.2% 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
- Knoulberry, Blackfell, Knoulberry Washington, Washington, NE37 1HA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 142 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 3 February 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are warmly welcomed into Blackfell Primary School each morning by staff who care deeply for them as individuals.”
- “Staff model the newly reintroduced values of relationships, resilience, resourcefulness, risk-taking and reflection.”
- “Pupils who exemplify these are praised in the weekly celebration assembly.”
To improve
- “However, children in Reception do not have sufficient opportunities to apply what they have learned.”
- “However, a small number of pupils in key stage 1 have some gaps in their phonics knowledge.”
- “At times, teaching does not address this swiftly enough to enable these pupils to catch up quickly to progress as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 2026 (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) | 80% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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.
- St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Oxclose Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Albany Village Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holley Park Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lambton Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Springwell Village Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington 1.1 mi Good Last distance published