Gillas Lane Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Houghton le Spring, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.055 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Gillas Lane Primary Academy is a primary school in Houghton le Spring, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 June 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Gillas Lane 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 | 1.055 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 1.055 miles away, the 17th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The last distance offered for Reception in 2025 was nearer the school than in 2024.
- In 2026, Reception had 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 15% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Seaton Avenue, Houghton le Spring, DH5 8EH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 134 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 June 2024
Strengths
- “Staff at Gillas Lane Primary Academy have high expectations of the pupils in their care.”
- “Pupils behave extremely well, demonstrating excellent manners.”
- “They listen attentively in class and participate enthusiastically in learning activities.”
To improve
- “In a small number of foundation subjects, such as art, the school is still in the process of refining the curriculum.”
- “In some topics, the small steps of learning need to be sharpened so that teachers can plan tasks which are more precisely focused on the most important knowledge.”
- “However, some pupils are not able to rapidly recall important number facts, such as multiplication tables.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 July 2024 (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) | 15% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 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.
- Bernard Gilpin Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Eppleton Academy Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Houghton 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Burnside Academy Inspires 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Newbottle Primary Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- East Rainton Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hetton Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hetton Lyons Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published