Academy 360
All-through · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–16 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
6.097 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Reception 2025: 3.701 mi
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Academy 360 is an all-through school in Sunderland for ages 4–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 May 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 and Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Academy 360 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 6.097 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 3.701 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 6.097 miles from the school, further out than in 2025.
- For Reception in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 3.701 miles from the school.
- Year 7 2026 had 104 first-choice applications for 116 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 12 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 63.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, and there are 14.2 pupils per teacher.
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
- Portsmouth Road, Sunderland, SR4 9BA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 854 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 63.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 May 2022
Strengths
- “Academy 360 is a much-improved school where everyone is valued.”
- “This is because of the strong strategic leadership of the Laidlaw Schools Trust and the determination of its staff.”
- “The quality of education is now good.”
To improve
- “High levels of staff absence, at times, have meant behaviour has not always been good.”
- “Some bullying happens occasionally.”
- “However, in some other subjects, teachers are just beginning to adopt the same approaches.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 June 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) | 61% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 19% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 31.7 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 22 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 22 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 104 first-preference applications, 116 offers in total, 104 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Sunderland.
- Christ's College 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- North View Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good
- The Link School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Sunningdale School 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding
- Thornhill Park School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Barbara Priestman Academy 1.8 mi School remains Good
- Trinity Academy New Bridge 1.9 mi Not judged
- Consilium Evolve 2.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next