Diamond Hall Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.977 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Diamond Hall Infant Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 11 March 2025. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Diamond Hall Infant 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 | 0.977 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 0.977 miles away, the 15th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024.
- For Reception 2026 entry, 68 first-choice applications for 75 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 27.5 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland is 19.8.
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
- Well Street, Sunderland, SR4 6JF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 314 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 11 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils know they attend a school where they are well cared for.”
- “Everyone is welcome at this school.”
- “The school works with parents and carers to meet pupils’ needs.”
To improve
- “On occasions, some pupils are not given sufficient opportunities to practise their sounds.”
- “This can slow down their journey to become fluent readers.”
- “The quality of phonics teaching and pupils’ achievements are not fully reflected in published outcomes.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 68 first-preference applications, 75 offers in total, 68 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.
- Diamond Hall Junior Academy 0.1 mi School remains Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Barnes Infant Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barnes Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Highfield Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Avenue Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Broadway Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good