Fulwell Infant School Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.528 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Fulwell Infant School Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Fulwell Infant School 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 | 2.528 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 2.528 miles away, the 22nd longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The Reception last distance for 2025 was further from the school than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 81 first-choice applications for 83 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 5.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
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
- Ebdon Lane, Fulwell, Fulwell Infant School Academy, Sunderland, SR6 8ED
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 354 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils and their families value the warm and positive relationships that they enjoy with staff and leaders at Fullwell Infant School Academy.”
- “Parents and carers speak highly of the strong communication they have with the school.”
- “This helps parents to understand how well their children are doing and how they can support their learning at home.”
To improve
- “In some other curriculums, such as art and design, the precise knowledge that the school wants pupils to learn is less clear.”
- “Occasionally, this means that adults’ expectations of what pupils will learn are inconsistent.”
- “However, in some subjects, adults do not check consistently well whether pupils remember their learning over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 July 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 81 first-preference applications, 83 offers in total, 81 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.
- Fulwell Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Seaburn Dene Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Redby Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Grange Park Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Southwick Community Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Dame Dorothy Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published