Graded inspection · Dec 2024 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry204 applications · 160 places offered · 131 named it first
- 2026 1.3; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2025 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.5
- 2024 1.3; Sunderland median median 1.6
- 2023 1.3; Sunderland median median 1.4
- 2022 1.4; Sunderland median median 1.4; as the previous school
- 2021 1.3; Sunderland median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2020 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 1.8; Sunderland median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 1.8; Sunderland median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2017 1.6; Sunderland median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 1.4; Sunderland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2015 1.5; Sunderland median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.4; Sunderland median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Sunderland median
Dashed bars: as Hetton School (URN 108862), the previous school.
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 | 160 | 204 | 1.3 | 131 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2025 | 128 | 185 | 1.5 | 119 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 126 | 165 | 1.3 | 123 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 136 | 172 | 1.3 | 121 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 * | 117 | 169 | 1.4 | 107 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2021 * | 128 | 163 | 1.3 | 127 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2020 * | 111 | 179 | 1.6 | 109 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2019 * | 102 | 180 | 1.8 | 98 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 * | 96 | 172 | 1.8 | 92 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2017 * | 103 | 164 | 1.6 | 102 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2016 * | 99 | 140 | 1.4 | 98 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 * | 90 | 133 | 1.5 | 89 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2014 * | 111 | 153 | 1.4 | 112 | 1.01 |
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.) | 122 | 52.2 | 60% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 116 | 51.8 | 57% | 79% | – |
| 2023/24 | 106 | 50.1 | 65% | 76% | +0.18 |
| 2022/23 | 111 | 42.1 | 46% | 62% | −0.41 |
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
- Hetton AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Sunderland20261.5applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · County DurhamRemains Good20241.6applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · Sunderland20261.3applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 6.7 km · County DurhamGood20231.3applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · SunderlandSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 43.1Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · Sunderland20251.4applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · County DurhamGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 46.8Attainment 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
- 149235 · 394/4059
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 681 on roll
- Free school meals
- 44.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Replaced
- Hetton School (URN 108862)
- Address
- North Road, Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton le Spring, DH5 9JZ
- Local authority
- Sunderland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources