Oxclose Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.632 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oxclose Primary Academy is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 April 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Oxclose 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 | 1.632 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 56.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- The 2025 Reception last distance offered was 1.632 miles, nearer than in 2024; the middle figure across 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance was 1.89 miles.
- In 2026 there were 30 first-choice applications for 28 Reception offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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
- Brancepeth Road, Oxclose, Washington, NE38 0LA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 183 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Oxclose Primary Academy.”
- “Leaders are at the school gate every morning to greet pupils and parents with a smile.”
- “There is a strong sense of community evident.”
To improve
- “In other wider curriculum subjects, this process has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
- “The important knowledge pupils will learn has not been as clearly identified.”
- “These are in place for some subjects but not across all the foundation subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 May 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) | 52% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 28 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.
- St John Boste Catholic Primary School, Washington 0.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Holley Park Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blackfell Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lambton Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Biddick Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Albany Village Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington 1.0 mi Good Last distance published