Highfield Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.51 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Highfield Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Highfield 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 | 2.51 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2025: the last child offered a place lived 2.51 miles away, the 24th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.89 miles).
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 82% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 26% 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
- Fordfield Road, Ford Estate, Sunderland, SR4 0DA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 443 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders are ambitious for pupils.”
- “Teachers push pupils to maximise their potential.”
- “Pupils step up to the challenge.”
To improve
- “In a minority of subjects, curriculum plans are less precise.”
- “Some plans do not clearly state when subject-specific knowledge, such as how historians use sources, should be taught by teachers.”
- “However, some pupils are still off school too often.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 November 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) | 82% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 50 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 Anne's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broadway Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Diamond Hall Infant Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- South Hylton Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Diamond Hall Junior Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castletown Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published