Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Sunderland
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Inadequate | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 21 January 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 5 November 2021Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry140 applications · 64 places offered · 57 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.2; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2025 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2024 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.6
- 2023 1.4; Sunderland median median 1.4
- 2022 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.4
- 2021 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2020 1.9; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2019 1.8; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2018 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2017 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.8
- 2016 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.7
- 2015 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.7
- 2014 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.6
- This school
- Sunderland median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 64 | 140 | 2.2 | 57 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2025 | 114 | 191 | 1.7 | 106 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 130 | 202 | 1.6 | 124 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 169 | 238 | 1.4 | 151 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 176 | 261 | 1.5 | 174 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2021 | 172 | 252 | 1.5 | 167 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2020 | 180 | 344 | 1.9 | 194 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 325 | 1.8 | 214 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2018 | 179 | 302 | 1.7 | 178 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2017 | 181 | 306 | 1.7 | 185 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2016 | 176 | 285 | 1.6 | 177 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 172 | 284 | 1.7 | 163 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2014 | 178 | 272 | 1.5 | 173 | 0.97 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 168 | 43.1 | 45% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 178 | 44.1 | 39% | 61% | – |
| 2023/24 | 177 | 37.6 | 22% | 43% | −1.04 |
| 2022/23 | 175 | 41.9 | 35% | 59% | −1.00 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Venerable Bede Church of England AcademyThis schoolThis schoolSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · SunderlandRemains Good20221.7applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · SunderlandGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 53.6Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · Sunderland20261.3applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · SunderlandGood20241.6applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · SunderlandGood20231.7applications per place 52.1Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Sunderland20251.4applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · SunderlandGood20231.9applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · County DurhamGood20231.3applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139184 · 394/4073
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 738 on roll
- Free school meals
- 34.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2013
- Replaced
- Venerable Bede Church of England (Aided) Secondary School (URN 133391)
- Address
- Tunstall Bank, Sunderland, SR2 0SX
- Local authority
- Sunderland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources