Easington Lane Primary School

Community school·Primary school Houghton le Spring, Sunderland·DH5 0JT
Composite score
44.4
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#9,309
National rank
#503
In North East
#57
In Sunderland
Top 63%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
37 first choices, 37 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 37 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.20
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320221.0020231.0020240.8020251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Easington Lane Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
303
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
49.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,766
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Easington Lane Primary School at a glance

Located in Houghton le Spring, Sunderland, Easington Lane Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 303 pupils aged 2 to 11. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Easington Lane Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 37 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 17.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 50% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Easington Lane Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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