New Silksworth Academy Infant
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.298 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
New Silksworth Academy Infant is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–7 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, from the inspection on 10 July 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
New Silksworth Academy Infant 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 | 3.298 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 3.298 miles away, 14th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The Sunderland middle figure for Reception 2025 was 1.89 miles; this school's 2025 distance was nearer the school than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 33 first-choice applications for 37 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 10th lowest of 74 Sunderland primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 19.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 40.2% 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
- Blind Lane, New Silksworth, Sunderland, SR3 1AS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 215 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Inspected 10 July 2024
Strengths
- “The pupils who attend New Silksworth Academy know that they belong here.”
- “They have a strong sense of their own identity and what it means to be a pupil at the school.”
- “The school’s motto #WeAre encapsulates this sense of belonging.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 33 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 33 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.
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Mill Hill Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hill View Infant Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Plains Farm Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Farringdon Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade