North East
Secondary schools in Sunderland
114 schools, 40,353 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 41.9.
Ofsted across Sunderland
Good59
Outstanding9
Requires improvement1
No overall grade45
69 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 45 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Sunderland
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetton AcademyAcademy converter | Houghton le Spring | No grade | 51.8 |
| St Aidan's Catholic AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | No grade | 51.2 |
| St Anthony's Girls' Catholic AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | Good 2023 | 50.7 |
| Southmoor AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | Good 2022 | 49 |
| St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, WashingtonAcademy converter | Washington | Good 2023 | 48.9 |
| Monkwearmouth AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | Good 2023 | 45.8 |
| Red House AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Sunderland | No grade | 44.8 |
| Farringdon Community AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | Requires improvement 2023 | 44.6 |
| Venerable Bede Church of England AcademyAcademy converter | Sunderland | No grade | 44.1 |
| KepierAcademy converter | Houghton le Spring | Good 2022 | 43.6 |
| Christ's CollegeFree schools | Sunderland | Good 2023 | 43.2 |
| Biddick AcademyAcademy converter | Washington | No grade | 42.5 |
| Castle View Enterprise AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Sunderland | Good 2023 | 41.9 |
| Oxclose Community AcademyAcademy converter | Washington | No grade | 41.8 |
| Thornhill AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Sunderland | Good 2024 | 41.4 |
| Sandhill View AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Sunderland | No grade | 38.6 |
| Washington AcademyAcademy converter | Washington | No grade | 33.1 |
| Academy 360Academy sponsor led | Sunderland | Good 2022 | 31.7 |