Ryhope Infant School Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.086 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ryhope Infant School Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 November 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Ryhope 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 | 1.086 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 2025 place lived 1.086 miles away, 18th shortest of the 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance and further than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 41 offers: 0.7 first choices per offer, the lowest of 74 Sunderland primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception 2026 place, and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Shaftesbury Avenue, Ryhope, Sunderland, SR2 0RT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 172 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 November 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders have ensured pupils at Ryhope Infant School Academy learn about their local community and know how to take care of it.”
- “Pupils show enthusiasm when they talk about the changes over time in Ryhope.”
- “Pupils respect the environment.”
To improve
- “Teachers are still getting used to these curriculum plans.”
- “Teachers’ subject knowledge is variable in some foundation subjects.”
- “As a result, teachers sometimes provide work that does not match the ambition of the planned curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 28 first-preference applications, 41 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.
- Ryhope Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Ryhope 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hill View Infant Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Hill View Junior Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- New Silksworth Academy Infant 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 1.1 mi School remains Good