UK Schools
Oxclose Community Academy
Oxclose Community Academy is a mixed secondary academy in Washington, Sunderland City Council, teaching 1,029 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in November 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 41.8 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 4 September 2025 to 22 July 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Oxclose Community Academy.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Oxclose Community Academy.
- 4 First day of Autumn Term
- 4 INSET Day – No students in school
- 5 Year 7 attend all day; Year 11 attend from break time
- 8 Return of students in Years 8, 9, and 10
- 24 INSET Day – No students in school
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term Break
- 19 Last day of Autumn Term
- 22–31 Winter (Christmas) Holidays
- 1–2 Winter (Christmas) Holidays
- 5 First day of Spring Term
- 23–27 Spring Half Term Break
- 2 Last day of Spring Term
- 3–17 Easter Holidays
- 20 First day of Summer Term
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Break
- 3 INSET Day – No students in school
- 22 Last day of Summer Term
- 23–31 Summer Holidays
- 1–28 Summer Holidays
Key dates (2025–2026)
- First day of Autumn Term 4 Sep 2025 Term
- Autumn Half Term Break 27 Oct 2025 - 31 Oct 2025 Holiday
- Last day of Autumn Term 19 Dec 2025 Term
- Winter (Christmas) Holidays 22 Dec 2025 - 2 Jan 2026 Holiday
- First day of Spring Term 5 Jan 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Break 23 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026 Holiday
- Last day of Spring Term 2 Apr 2026 Term
- Easter Holidays 3 Apr 2026 - 17 Apr 2026 Holiday
- First day of Summer Term 20 Apr 2026 Term
- Summer Half Term Break 25 May 2026 - 29 May 2026 Holiday
- Last day of Summer Term 22 Jul 2026 Term
- Summer Holidays 23 Jul 2026 - 28 Aug 2026 Holiday
- INSET Day – No students in school 4 Sep 2025 Inset Day
- Year 7 attend all day; Year 11 attend from break time 5 Sep 2025 Holiday
- Return of students in Years 8, 9, and 10 8 Sep 2025 Event
- INSET Day – No students in school 24 Oct 2025 Inset Day
- INSET Day – No students in school 3 Jul 2026 Inset Day
- Return date for 2026/2027 academic year Sep 2026 (Date TBC) Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Oxclose Community Academy with Sunderland City Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 41.8 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Sunderland City Council England
Attendance 30.6% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Sunderland City Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 81% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Sunderland City Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Oxclose Community Academy. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Oxclose Community Academy than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.