South Hylton Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.345 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
South Hylton Primary Academy is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
South Hylton 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 | 1.345 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2025 last distance offered, 1.345 miles, was the 24th shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance, and nearer than in 2024.
- 2026 Reception entry had 24 first-choice applications for 24 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 14% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result ranked 3rd lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland that have results.
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
- Union Street, South Hylton, Sunderland, SR4 0LS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 252 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 2 December 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils feel welcome and safe in this inclusive school from the moment they arrive each morning.”
- “Pupils benefit from positive relationships with staff.”
- “This helps pupils to communicate their feelings and get help when they need it.”
To improve
- “Writing remains an area for further improvement so that pupils achieve as well as they should.”
- “Leaders recognise the need to continue to raise attendance so that all pupils come to school as often as they can.”
- “However, the school's work to ensure that pupils write clearly and legibly is not currently embedded across the school.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 January 2026 (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) | 69% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 24 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 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Castletown Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Highfield Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broadway Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Grindon Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hylton Castle Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Diamond Hall Infant Academy 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published