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Girls secondary school in Sunderland

St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy

Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2 7JN

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Roman Catholic Girls
School website 01915658904

Ofsted

Goodas at 24 January 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 24 January 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

50.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

48% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

71% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

70% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.09confidence interval -0.09 to 0.27

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C+
Average points per entry
31.8

England average 32.3

A level students
94

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1297
Places
1400
How full
93% full — 1297 of 1400 places taken
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
22%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
21%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
18%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
92%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
53%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
224

After sixth form

Went to university
68%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
8%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
119

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

25% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
82%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
130

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Sunderland 022G, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
42%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
72%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
44%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BISHOP CHADWICK CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Marie Lanaghan
Local authority
Sunderland
Ward
Millfield
Constituency
Sunderland Central
URN
138054

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Argyle House SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.1 mi
Thornhill AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 41.4 0.2 mi
St Aidan's Catholic AcademyAcademy converter No grade 51.2 0.5 mi
Southmoor AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 49 0.9 mi
Hopespring SunderlandOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Sandhill View AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.6 1.7 mi
Venerable Bede Church of England AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.1 1.8 mi
Christ's CollegeFree schools Good 2023 43.2 1.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
The Willink SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 51.9
Heathfield Community CollegeCommunity school Good 2023 50.6
Hobart High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.1
Wickersley School and Sports CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 49
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolFree schools No grade 47
Brooke Weston AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 50.5
Brookfield Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8
Lady Margaret SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 66.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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