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New Silksworth Academy Infant
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Sponsored academy
Blind Lane, New Silksworth, Sunderland SR3 1AS · newsilksworthacademy.co.uk · 0191 500 0015
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Jul 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 215
- 5 over 210 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 28.9%
- First language not English
- 5.1%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Extol Academy Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 33 families put the school first and 37 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 37 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 30 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 58 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 39 | 39 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 10 July 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for New Silksworth Academy Infant was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 9 Jul 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 108790), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Feb 2015Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 108790)
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (22 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 22
- 10% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 59% who raised concerns
based on the 5% who had a child bullied