Farringdon Community Academy

Allendale Road, Sunderland, SR3 3EL

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About this school

Farringdon Community Academy is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Sunderland. The school has 675 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Requires improvement (graded inspection, 10 January 2023). Last inspected 9 June 2026. The Headteacher is Jordan Bedford. The school is administered by Sunderland local authority. It belongs to NORTHERN EDUCATION TRUST. It opened in 1 September 2023.

School details

Head

Jordan Bedford

Trust

NORTHERN EDUCATION TRUST

Local authority

Sunderland

Gender

Mixed

URN

150268

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Farringdon Community Academy are handled by the school or the local authority (Sunderland). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

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