Primary
Burnside Academy Inspires
Burnside Estate, Houghton le Spring, DH4 5HB
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 174 of 236 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
- Local authority
- Sunderland
- Nursery
- Yes
- Trust
- INSPIRE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 7.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 12.3
- Pupils per adult
- 11.8
- Pupils
- 146
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2024
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
57%
7 points below the Houghton le Spring average (64% across 17 schools)
103.0
1.5 below the Houghton le Spring average (104.5 across 17 schools)
17th of 17 by our score, among the primary schools in Houghton le Spring we can score - 18 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 97 |
| Average reading score | 103 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 57% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 70% |
| 23/24 | 56% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 101.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 101.0 |
| 24/25 | 97.0 |
Burnside Estate, Houghton le Spring, DH4 5HB
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Sunderland admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- L Kelly
- Address
- Burnside Estate, Houghton le Spring, DH4 5HB
- Telephone
- 01915120466