Portland Academy
Special schoolPortland Academy is a special school in Sunderland, for pupils aged 11 to 19. It had 207 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Improved significantly, February 2025
Before that: Good (overall), November 2019
- Inspection
- Graded inspection, 26 November 2019
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Latest ungraded inspection
- Improved significantly, 19 February 2025
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationEnd of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Sunderland | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | Does not apply to this school | 43.6 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 44.7% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 63.6% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | 23 | – | – |
- Portland Academy teaches pupils with needs that most schools' pupils do not have, often in very small year groups, so its results are not a fair comparison with mainstream schools. They are not shown on the map.
- The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
- Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- Benedict Biscop Church of England AcademyPrimary. Graded inspection, October 2024: no overall grade. 97% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)620 m
- Mill Hill Nursery SchoolNursery. Outstanding (overall), March 2024860 m
- Mill Hill Primary SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, January 2024. 79% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)870 m
- Farringdon Community AcademySecondary. Report card, June 2026: safeguarding met. Attainment 8 of 46.2 (2025/26, provisional)1.4 km
- East Herrington Primary AcademyPrimary. Good (overall), October 2022. 81% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.7 km
- New Silksworth Academy InfantPrimary. School remains Good (Improving), next inspection graded, July 20241.8 km
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Sunderland
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).