Valley Road Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.241 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Valley Road 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 19 October 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Valley Road 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 | 1.241 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 34% of pupils, above the middle figure of 20% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 34 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the published admission number for Reception 2027 is 60 places.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 1.241 miles away, the 21st shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 85% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 15% 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
- Corporation Road, Hendon, Sunderland, SR2 8PL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 344 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 October 2022
Strengths
- “This is a warm and welcoming school.”
- “Leaders make sure that pupils and staff are valued as members of the school community.”
- “Staff take the time to listen to pupils who have any concerns.”
To improve
- “Leaders know where more work is needed to further develop the curriculum in small areas of the school.”
- “Leaders are working to develop the curriculum for those with the most complex special educational needs.”
- “Leaders know they need to further refine the learning opportunities in some classes to ensure the learning environment, the opportunities to access the curriculum and individual learning plans match the needs of all pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 December 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) | 85% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 34 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.
- Grangetown Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hudson Road Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Hill View Junior Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Hill View Infant Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Richard Avenue Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dame Dorothy Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barnes Infant Academy 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published