Bernard Gilpin Primary School Overview

Bernard Gilpin Primary School is a primary school located in Houghton le Spring and reports to the local authority of Sunderland.

Bernard Gilpin Primary School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 5 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 400 students but currently enrols 424 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Bernard Gilpin Primary School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 93.4% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.4% of students at the school.

23.3% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Bernard Gilpin Primary School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities