Primary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 102646 · LAESTAB 315/2074 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Merton
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; M = Merton 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: 47 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.
Merton Council, Reception, 2019/20–27. Merton 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 2023 Remains Good · Nov 2017 Good · Jul 2013 Good · Jun 2011 Satisfactory · Oct 2007 Good. 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 (312 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.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 13, leadership 2, teaching assistants 7.51, support staff incl. TAs 15.53, whole workforce 28.53 (42 people), 14 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.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (7)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Merton 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
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 7,694 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 52%
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 | 18 | 18 |
| 2nd | 14 | 0 |
| 3rd | 18 | 3 |
- 2026/27All offered
- 2025/26All offered
- 2024/25All offered
- 2023/24All offered
- 2022/23All offered
- 2021/22All offered
- 2020/21All offered
- 2019/20All offered
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2007–2023
5 strong areas
- Outcomes for pupils
- Early years provision
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
0 weak areas
5 areas graded · 2 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jul 2023
Strengths
- “This is a school where pupils are happy and where staff support their safety.”
- “Pupils’ rights and responsibilities are at the heart of this community.”
- “Leaders empower pupils with a ‘voice’ to share their views.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, routines used to check pupils’ knowledge and skills are not firmly established.”
- “As a result, teachers are not able to identify and address gaps in pupils’ knowledge as accurately as in other subjects.”
- “This means pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 51.8%Boys 48.2%
84.3% full · 312 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 11
- Leadership 2
- Teaching assistants 7.5
- Other support 8
Teachers 13 FTE · Whole workforce 28.5 · 42 people
Financials · 2025/26
- +£36,170revenue reserve
- +£519in-year balance
Grants £9,842 · self-generated £273 · premises £462 per pupil