East Herrington Primary Academy

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

0.979 miles

Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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East Herrington Primary Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.

East Herrington Primary Academy 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	0.979 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 Reception 2025 last distance, 0.979 miles, was nearer the school than in 2024 and the 16th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
For Reception 2026, 63 first-choice applications came in for 59 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (6%) were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
In 2024/25 that 81% 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: Balmoral Terrace, East Herrington, Sunderland, SR3 3PR
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Sunderland
Pupils on roll: 476 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 14.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 24.2

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 11 October 2022

Strengths

“Pupils at East Herrington Primary Academy are respectful and eager to achieve well.”
“They have positive attitudes to learning and concentrate well in lessons.”
“Teachers use regular opportunities for singing to help motivate and engage pupils in their learning.”

To improve

“This is in the early stages of development and leaders have not fully checked the impact of this new system.”
“As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, some pupils do not attend school as often as they should.”
“This is despite leaders’ efforts to improve rates of absence.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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)	81%	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: 63 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.

Hasting Hill Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
Farringdon Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
Benedict Biscop Church of England Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
Thorney Close Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Grindon Infant School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Mill Hill Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
New Silksworth Academy Infant 1.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published