United Kingdom / Regions / Sunderland
Sunderland
North East, England · population ~278k · 116 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 96 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Sunderland
116 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (96 of 116 here), 96.4% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 3 schools (2.6% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 116 schools.
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St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington | Secondary | 1,588 | Good· | 11/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Southmoor Academy | Secondary | 1,392 | Good· | 28/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy | Secondary | 1,306 | Good | 24/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Kepier | Secondary | 1,144 | Good | 09/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Oxclose Community Academy | Secondary | 1,078 | Good· | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Biddick Academy | Secondary | 1,069 | Good | 17/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Castle View Enterprise Academy | Secondary | 1,019 | Good | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Aidan's Catholic Academy | Secondary | 992 | Good· | 18/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Academy 360 | Secondary | 872 | Good | 10/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Venerable Bede Church of England Academy | Secondary | 843 | Good· | 21/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Monkwearmouth Academy | Secondary | 802 | Good | 15/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Christ's College | Secondary | 778 | Good | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandhill View Academy | Secondary | 760 | Good | 18/11/2025 | Ofsted |
Farringdon Community Academy | Secondary | 675 | Requires Improvement | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hetton Academy | Secondary | 671 | Not graded | 10/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Washington Academy | Secondary | 594 | Requires Improvement | 06/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thornhill Academy | Secondary | 564 | Good | 01/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Dubmire Primary | Primary | 488 | Not graded | 22/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland | Primary | 472 | Not graded | 18/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
East Herrington Primary Academy | Primary | 471 | Good | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.