Graded inspection · Feb 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 18 February 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 8 June 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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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 entry289 applications · 179 places offered · 176 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2025 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2024 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.6
- 2023 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.4
- 2022 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.4
- 2021 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2020 2.1; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2019 2.2; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2018 2.0; Sunderland median median 1.9
- 2017 1.9; Sunderland median median 1.8
- 2016 1.8; Sunderland median median 1.7
- 2015 1.7; Sunderland median median 1.7
- 2014 1.8; 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 | 179 | 289 | 1.6 | 176 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 192 | 285 | 1.5 | 187 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 195 | 305 | 1.6 | 195 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 180 | 291 | 1.6 | 175 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 161 | 245 | 1.5 | 139 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2021 | 146 | 243 | 1.7 | 125 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2020 | 118 | 252 | 2.1 | 98 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2019 | 134 | 289 | 2.2 | 113 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2018 | 124 | 252 | 2.0 | 120 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2017 | 127 | 247 | 1.9 | 116 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2016 | 144 | 265 | 1.8 | 139 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 | 174 | 289 | 1.7 | 174 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 150 | 266 | 1.8 | 137 | 0.91 |
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.) | 174 | 53.6 | 59% | 79% | – |
| 2024/25 | 123 | 51.2 | 63% | 78% | – |
| 2023/24 | 153 | 51.5 | 55% | 71% | +0.37 |
| 2022/23 | 127 | 53.1 | 54% | 77% | +0.28 |
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
- St Aidan's Catholic AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 53.6Attainment 8
- 0.5 km · SunderlandGood20241.6applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · SunderlandRemains Good20221.7applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · SunderlandGood20231.7applications per place 52.1Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · SunderlandSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Sunderland20251.4applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · SunderlandGood20231.9applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Sunderland20261.3applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · SunderlandGood20221.2applications per place 29.1Attainment 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
- 139538 · 394/4607
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,000 pupils · 1,057 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2013
- Replaced
- St Aidan's Catholic School (URN 108869)
- Address
- Willowbank Road, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HJ
- Local authority
- Sunderland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources