St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland

Academy converter·Primary school Sunderland·SR5 4JW
Composite score
47.9
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#8,049
National rank
#447
In North East
#52
In Sunderland
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
11%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 25 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
31
any preference, for 25 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.9120231.0020240.8320251.002026

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

Every child who put St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
199
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
25.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
27.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,901
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland at a glance

Located in Sunderland, St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 199 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 54% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 7.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle 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). 11% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 25 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.3%. There are about 23.0 pupils per teacher. St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, Town End Farm, Sunderland 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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