Barbara Priestman Academy Overview

Barbara Priestman Academy is a secondary & 6th form school located in Sunderland and reports to the local authority of Sunderland.

Barbara Priestman Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 19 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 178 students but currently only enrols 172 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Barbara Priestman Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 94.2% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 1.2% of students at the school.

56.3% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Barbara Priestman Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities