Primary school
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This school
URN 100780 · LAESTAB 210/2085 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Southwark
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; S = Southwark median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
London state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the London median, red = in London's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with maintained schools' accounts (CFR), same financial year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against London: London state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against London (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in London percentile points since 2018/19.
Pupils counted: 70 pupils (2024/25), every measure.
KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Southwark Council, Reception, 2021/22–27. Southwark Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: straight-line.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jul 2024 Good · Mar 2022 Requires improvement · Mar 2018 Requires improvement · Jan 2018 Good · Nov 2016 Ungraded visit · Feb 2016 Requires improvement · Nov 2014 Good · Oct 2013 Requires improvement. Each dot opens its Ofsted report.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (525 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Parent View
Survey period 4 Sep 2023 to 2 Sep 2024, as at 2 Sep 2024. Source: Ofsted Parent View management information, OGL v3.0 (dataset). The school's own survey page is under Visit & links.
Ofsted changed the survey on 10 Nov 2025. The card shows the newest survey with 10 or more responses; an earlier survey is labelled and never mixed with the current one.
Share of the parents who answered, from Ofsted's published percentages: agree = strongly agree + agree; yes/no and overall-view questions show the share answering Yes or Positive. Where a question does not apply to every parent (Not applicable, I have not raised any concerns), agree is the share of the parents it applies to: strongly agree + agree divided by 100% minus that answer; the card says how many it did not apply to. Don't know stays in. Ofsted publishes a school only with 10 or more submissions. The questions changed on 10 November 2025: the card shows the current survey when the school has one, else the earlier survey (one academic year of submissions, the latest with 10 or more), never both.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 22, leadership 4.7, teaching assistants 22.49, support staff incl. TAs 33.87, whole workforce 55.87 (65 people), 23 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Maintained school accounts (CFR) · April 2025 to March 2026.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
All sources and licences (8)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Southwark Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Consistent Financial Reporting
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
- Ofsted, Ofsted Parent View management information
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 6,597 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 44%
Against LondonArrows: London rank change since 2018/19
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 24 | 24 |
| 2nd | 13 | 0 |
| 3rd | 8 | 0 |
- 2026/27All offered
- 2025/26All offered
- 2022/23All offered
- 2021/22All offered
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2013–2024
- 2013Requires improvement
- 2014Goodas predecessor
- 2016Requires improvement
- 2016Ungraded visit
- 2018Good
- 2018Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2022Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2024Good
4 strong areas
- Personal development
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
1 weak areas
- Early years provision
5 areas graded · safeguarding effective · 3 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jul 2024
Strengths
- “Bird in Bush school was formed at the start of the year from the merger of two previous schools.”
- “Leaders have brought the two communities together very effectively.”
- “They have created a harmonious and welcoming atmosphere with a culture of aspiration.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the curriculum is not ambitious enough and not enough time is given for it to be taught effectively.”
- “In these subjects, the school’s curricular thinking does not provide opportunities for pupils to review and revisit their learning regularly.”
- “As a result, pupils are not building up a broad body of knowledge in each subject.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 52.3%Boys 47.7%
72.6% full · 525 places
Parent View
Earlier survey (before Nov 2025) · as at 2 Sep 2024 · 83 responses (17.1% of pupils)
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 17.3
- Leadership 4.7
- Teaching assistants 22.5
- Other support 11.4
Teachers 22 FTE · Whole workforce 55.9 · 65 people
Financials · 2025/26
- +£190,828revenue reserve
- +£95,237in-year balance
Grants £10,872 · self-generated £674 · premises £504 per pupil