Barmston Village Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.888 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barmston Village Primary School is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 November 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Barmston Village 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 | 0.888 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 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.888 miles away, the 14th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 17 first-choice applications for 17 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 56.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 39.9% 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
- Barmston Centre, Washington, NE38 8JA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are enthusiastic about coming to school.”
- “They are keen to learn and they are looked after well.”
- “Parents and carers are extremely positive about the school.”
To improve
- “Pupils sometimes say unkind things to one another.”
- “However, leaders know that in mathematics, there is more work to do to develop pupils’ problem-solving.”
- “In some subjects, pupils cannot readily recall their learning, particularly when time has passed since they studied it.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 December 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) | 60% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 17 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.
- John F Kennedy Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Biddick Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Usworth Colliery Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Albany Village Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fatfield Academy 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published