Dame Dorothy Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Sunderland
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.689 miles
Published by Sunderland City Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dame Dorothy Primary School 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.
Dame Dorothy Primary School 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 | 1.689 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 in 2025 lived 1.689 miles away, 32nd shortest of 74 Sunderland primary schools with a published last distance, and nearer than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers (1.0 first choices per offer, 15th highest of 74 Sunderland primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- At 26.5%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals compares with a middle figure of 33.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sunderland.
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
- Dock Street, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, SR6 0EA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sunderland
- Pupils on roll
- 181 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- Redby Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Park Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hudson Road Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Fulwell Infant School Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fulwell Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Southwick Community Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Valley Road Academy 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published