St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Washington, Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
5.706 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington is a primary school in Washington, Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington 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 | 5.706 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 5.706 miles away, the 6th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2024.
- In 2024/25, 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 22 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
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
- Hampshire Place, Usworth, Washington, NE37 2NP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “Leaders and staff have created a welcoming, nurturing and friendly environment.”
- “Pupils are happy and feel safe.”
- “The school motto ‘in Christ’s kindness…we learn, we pray, we belong’ prevails throughout the life of the school.”
To improve
- “In some curriculum areas, the legacy of the previous curriculum continues to have a negative impact on pupils’ current achievement.”
- “This is because some pupils have some remaining gaps in their knowledge.”
- “The current, highly ambitious curriculum is addressing this but it is not fully embedded.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 2024 (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) | 80% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 22 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.
- Usworth Colliery Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- George Washington Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Albany Village Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Springwell Village Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Barmston Village Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Wessington Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published