St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.117 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland is a primary school in Sunderland for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Improved significantly, from the inspection on 18 December 2024. Sunderland has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 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 | 2.117 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 2024/25, 95% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 31% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2025's last distance offered was 2.117 miles, further than in 2024 and 29th longest of the 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 71 first-choice applications for 60 offers, all to first-choice families; 11 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- 6.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 26.1 pupils per teacher; the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland have middle figures of 20% and 20.8.
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
- Meadowside, Sunderland, SR2 7QN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 472 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Improved significantly Inspected 18 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Mary’s are proud, polite and respectful members of the school community.”
- “Their exemplary attitudes and conduct contribute exceptionally well to a peaceful and harmonious learning environment.”
- “Relationships between pupils and adults are extremely positive.”
To improve
- “The published 2024 outcomes for the phonics screening check in Year 1 were an anomaly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 January 2025 (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) | 95% | 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: 71 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Richard Avenue Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barnes Infant Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barnes Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Plains Farm Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hill View Junior Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained
- Hill View Infant Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Diamond Hall Junior Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published