St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.177 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 November 2022. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Leonard's Catholic Primary School, Silksworth 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 | 2.177 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 last child offered a Reception place for 2025 lived 2.177 miles away, the 28th longest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.89 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 27 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 85% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 24% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 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
- Tunstall Village Road, Silksworth, Sunderland, SR3 2BB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 207 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 November 2022
Strengths
- “Staff and multi-academy trust aspirations for this school and its pupils are high.”
- “A transformation is happening at St Leonard’s.”
- “Parents and carers and pupils wholeheartedly agree.”
To improve
- “This builds their knowledge year on year, although leaders have not yet designed systems to revisit and make checks on this growing knowledge over time.”
- “This is not the case for all subjects.”
- “In subjects such as geography and science, the way in which learning is built from children’s starting points in early years is not so well identified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 January 2023 (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: 27 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 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.
- New Silksworth Academy Infant 0.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- New Silksworth Academy Junior 0.1 mi School remains Good
- Mill Hill Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hill View Infant Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Plains Farm Academy 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ryhope Infant School Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ryhope Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Farringdon Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published