St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
6.357 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 May 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided 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 | 6.357 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 6.357 miles away, the 5th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 32 first-choice applications for 33 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland that have results.
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
- Fulwell Road, St Benet's RC Primary School Fulwell Road, Sunderland, SR6 9QU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 303 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 May 2024
Strengths
- “There is a solid sense of community at St Benet’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School.”
- “The Catholic ethos is palpable within this inclusive, welcoming community.”
- “Strong, trusting relationships are evident.”
To improve
- “In key stage 1 and 2, there is variability in the school’s implementation of the curriculum.”
- “However, in some subjects, the tasks selected for pupils to complete do not help them to learn as well as they could.”
- “At times, the school’s checks on what pupils know and can do are not as effective as they need to be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 June 2024 (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) | 78% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 33 offers in total, 32 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.
- Redby Academy 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Grange Park Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Fulwell Infant School Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fulwell Junior School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Dame Dorothy Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southwick Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Seaburn Dene Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Hudson Road Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published