St Paul's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.991 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Paul's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 9 April 2025. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Paul's CofE 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 | 1.991 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, there were 68 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 44 offers went to first-choice families, and 24 first-choice families (35%) were not offered a place.
- At 1.5 first choices per offer, Reception 2026 was the 2nd highest of 74 Sunderland primary schools.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 1.991 miles away, the 33rd longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception last distance in 2025 was further from the school than in 2024.
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
- Waterworks Road, Ryhope, Sunderland, SR2 0LW
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 332 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 9 April 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy their learning, and they thrive at this inclusive and friendly school.”
- “It has high expectations for what they can achieve.”
- “The enthusiasm that pupils show in lessons reflects the broad and interesting curriculum.”
To improve
- “Some pupils need greater support with their reading.”
- “In a minority of subjects, the work given to pupils does not closely match what they need to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 2025 (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) | 88% | 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: 68 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 44 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 Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Ryhope 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Infant 1.3 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 1.3 mi School remains Good
- Hill View Infant Academy 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Mill Hill Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published