Hill View Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.594 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hill View Infant Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 June 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Hill View Infant 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 | 3.594 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 3.594 miles away, the 10th 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 110 first-choice applications for 115 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.7% 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
- Helvellyn Road, Sunderland, SR2 9JJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 439 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 June 2022
Strengths
- “Children at Hill View get off to a flying start in nursery.”
- “Staff have high expectations of them, quickly establishing routines and building up their social skills.”
- “There are excellent relationships between children, families and staff.”
To improve
- “In other subjects there are inconsistencies in the way the curriculum aims are delivered.”
- “The history curriculum does not have the same tight focus, and what pupils should learn in each topic is not as clearly defined as some subjects.”
- “There are few independent learning activities featuring history for pupils to access.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 October 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 110 first-preference applications, 115 offers in total, 110 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.
- Hill View Junior Academy 0.2 mi Standards maintained
- Grangetown Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 0.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Infant 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade