Diamond Hall Infant Academy

Academy converter·Infant school Sunderland·SR4 6JF

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Diamond Hall Infant Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

68 first choices, 75 places

First choices per place

0.91

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 75 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8920220.9320230.9220240.8920250.912026

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

Every child who put Diamond Hall Infant Academy 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 364
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

33.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

37.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

17.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.5%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.7%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

16.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

29.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,433

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Diamond Hall Junior Academy Sunderland · 0.0 mi 54.7 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Sunderland · 0.1 mi 91.2 Highfield Academy Sunderland · 0.7 mi 83.6 Barnes Junior School Sunderland · 0.7 mi 25.9 Richard Avenue Primary School Sunderland · 0.9 mi 50.9 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland Sunderland · 1.0 mi 96.8 Broadway Junior School Sunderland · 1.1 mi 41.6 Southwick Community Primary School Southwick · 1.1 mi 36.6

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Diamond Hall Infant Academy is a primary school serving Sunderland, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 364 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Diamond Hall Infant Academy their first choice was offered one of its 75 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 29.6 pupils per teacher. Diamond Hall Infant Academy 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.