Holley Park Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.585 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holley Park Academy is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 June 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Holley Park 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 | 0.585 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 10.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 37.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- For Reception in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.585 miles away, the 7th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024; in 2026 there were 23 first-choice applications for 23 Reception offers.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 16% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Ayton Road, Oxclose, Washington, NE38 0LR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Holley Park are happy, polite and considerate.”
- “They live out the school’s vision of ‘work together, achieve more’.”
- “They embody the school values, ‘the five Rs’, which include resilience and resourcefulness.”
To improve
- “However, leaders identified that the mathematics curriculum in previous years was more focused on basic mathematical fluency rather than on promotion of problem solving and reasoning.”
- “This has not had sufficient time for impact to be shown in increasing pupil achievement at the higher standard by the end of key stage 2.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 July 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) | 74% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 23 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.
- Lambton Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oxclose Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Blackfell Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Biddick Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rickleton Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Albany Village Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published