Primary school

St Paul's Church of England Primary School

  • Academy Sponsor Led
  • ages 2–11
  • Mixed
  • Church of England
  • Southwark
  • SE17 3DT

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Results · 2024/25

Ranked 8,878 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 59%

Top % in England, by year
2015/16: top 85%85%2016/17: top 92%2017/18: top 96%2018/19: top 92%2022/23: top 55%2023/24: top 40%40% · 2023/242024/25: top 59%No exams

Against London

Expected standard, RWM61% · London 72%Small cohort: 23 pupils in 2024/25 (under 30)
Higher standard, RWM4% · London 12%Small cohort: 23 pupils in 2024/25 (under 30)
Reading score105 · London 107Small cohort: 23 pupils in 2024/25 (under 30)
Maths score101 · London 107Small cohort: 23 pupils in 2024/25 (under 30)
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No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22

Expected standard, RWM
2015/16: 36% · 44 pupils · London 61%2016/17: 38% · 42 pupils · London 69%2017/18: 37% · 41 pupils · London 72%2018/19: 44% · 45 pupils · London 73%2022/23: 60% · 30 pupils · London 68%2023/24: 67% · 30 pupils · London 70%2024/25: 61% · 23 pupils · London 72%67%36%No exams
Higher standard, RWM
2015/16: 2% · 44 pupils · London 7%2016/17: 2% · 42 pupils · London 10%2017/18: 0% · 41 pupils · London 12%2018/19: 2% · 45 pupils · London 13%2022/23: 3% · 30 pupils · London 11%2023/24: 3% · 30 pupils · London 11%2024/25: 4% · 23 pupils · London 12%4%0%No exams
Reading score
2015/16: 99 · 44 pupils · London 1032016/17: 99 · 42 pupils · London 1052017/18: 101 · 41 pupils · London 1062018/19: 101 · 45 pupils · London 1062022/23: 102 · 30 pupils · London 1062023/24: 105 · 30 pupils · London 1072024/25: 105 · 23 pupils · London 10710599No exams
Maths score
2015/16: 101 · 44 pupils · London 1042016/17: 101 · 42 pupils · London 1062017/18: 99 · 41 pupils · London 1062018/19: 100 · 45 pupils · London 1072022/23: 102 · 30 pupils · London 1062023/24: 103 · 30 pupils · London 1062024/25: 101 · 23 pupils · London 10710399No exams

Getting in · 2026

First-choice families who got in100.0%
22 of 22 who put it first2014 · 100.0%2026 · 100.0%
By preference
ChoiceAppliedOffered
1st2222
2nd50
3rd50

No last distance offered published

Inspections · 2007–2023

  1. 2007Satisfactoryas predecessor
  2. 2010Goodas predecessor
  3. 2014Goodas predecessor
  4. 2018Inadequateas predecessor
  5. 2018Ungraded visitas predecessor
  6. 2023Good

5 strong areas

  • Personal development
  • Quality of education
  • Behaviour and attitudes
  • Early years provision
  • Effectiveness of leadership and management

0 weak areas

5 areas graded · safeguarding effective · 2 points to improve

Read what Ofsted said (6)

From Ofsted report, inspected Jul 2023

Strengths

  • “This school is summed up well by a parent when they said, ‘Staff make every effort so that my child can learn and develop little by little on her own.”
  • “Staff care about helping their pupils; they know them well and adapt their teaching to meet their needs effectively.”
  • “Leaders have high expectations for pupils.”

To improve

  • “This makes it harder for adults working with pupils to know what content to explicitly teach and then check that pupils have understood.”
  • “As a result, some important knowledge is not sticking in pupils’ longterm memories.”
  • “The school’s overall offer to nurture pupils’ different talents and interests is not as well developed as it should be.”

Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pupils · 2024/25

On roll · Jan 2026207
Free school meals (past 6 years)54.0%
First language not English51.6%
SEN support21.7%
EHC plan3.7%
Absence (sessions missed)3.8%
Persistently absent pupils11.0%

Girls 47.2%Boys 52.8%

65.7% full · 315 places

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Workforce · 2025/26

Pupils per teacher24.5
Pupils per adult11.1
  • Classroom teachers 7.3
  • Leadership 0.7
  • Teaching assistants 8.8
  • Other support 3.6

Teachers 8 FTE · Whole workforce 20.4 · 27 people

Financials · 2024/25

Income per pupil£10,906
Spend per pupil£10,869
Staff spend per pupil£7,875
Reserve per pupil−£788
  • −£126,000revenue reserve
  • +£6,000in-year balance

Grants £10,656 · self-generated £250 · premises £762 per pupil

Multi-academy trust: SDBE MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST (14 academies) · trust reserve £1,703,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it