Christ's College
All-through · Free schools · Ages 4–18 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.816 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Reception 2025: 3.403 mi
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Christ's College is an all-through school in Sunderland for ages 4–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 October 2023. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 and Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Christ's College 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 0.816 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 3.403 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 0.816 miles from the school, nearer than in 2025.
- For Reception in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 3.403 miles from the school.
- Year 7 2026 had 115 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 86 offers went to first-choice families and 29 first-choice families (25%) were not offered a place.
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
- Pennywell Road, Sunderland, SR4 8PG
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 796 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 October 2023
Strengths
- “There have been significant improvements at Christ’s College of late.”
- “Pupils benefit from a caring and nurturing environment.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are caring, warm and courteous.”
To improve
- “However, in some secondary lessons, there are instances of low-level disruption.”
- “The school is focusing on ensuring that all staff manage behaviour in a consistent way.”
- “However, there are some inconsistencies in the delivery of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 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) | 63% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 43% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 43.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 46 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 115 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 86 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Sunderland.
- Academy 360 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Link School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- North View Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Sunningdale School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding
- Thornhill Park School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Barbara Priestman Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good
- Consilium Evolve 1.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Argyle House School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade