Primary school
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This school
URN 146842 · LAESTAB 305/3005 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Bromley
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; B = Bromley 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 academies' accounts (AAR), same academic 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%).
Pupils counted: 38 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.
Bromley Council, Reception, 2021/22–27. Bromley Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: unknown.
You: the straight line from the centre of St Mary Cray North (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jul 2023 Good · Apr 2017 Ungraded visit · Jun 2016 Requires improvement · Nov 2013 Requires improvement · Feb 2012 Satisfactory · Jun 2009 Good · Oct 2005 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 (320 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 9.3, leadership 2.8, teaching assistants 5.47, support staff incl. TAs 9.66, whole workforce 18.96 (30 people), 10 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
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
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
- Bromley Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- 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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St Paul's Cray Church of England Primary School
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 14,528 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 97%
Against London
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 15 | 15 |
| 2nd | 3 | 1 |
| 3rd | 5 | 0 |
- 2026/27All offered
- 2025/26All offered
- 2024/25All offered
- 2023/24All offered
- 2022/23All offered
- 2021/22All offered
- You1.3 km
Inside last year's distance · approx.: from the centre of St Mary Cray North, not your door
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 · 2005–2023
- 2005Goodas predecessor
- 2009Goodas predecessor
- 2012Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2013Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2016Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2017Ungraded visitas predecessor
- 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 · 3 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jul 2023
Strengths
- “St Paul’s Cray is a happy school, with a ‘family centred’ approach at the heart of its work.”
- “Leaders provide a lot of support, when needed, to parents and carers.”
- “They build positive relationships and work with parents to keep their children safe and well looked after.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the curriculum is not as ambitious and/or precisely set out as it should be.”
- “As a result, pupils do not build the strong body of knowledge and skills that they should.”
- “Leaders should review their curriculum thinking in these subjects, ensuring that staff have the subject training needed to deliver the revised curriculum.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 48.5%Boys 51.5%
55.6% full · 320 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 6.5
- Leadership 2.8
- Teaching assistants 5.5
- Other support 4.2
Teachers 9.3 FTE · Whole workforce 19 · 30 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£334,000revenue reserve
- −£62,000in-year balance
Grants £8,286 · self-generated £102 · premises £568 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: AMADEUS PRIMARY ACADEMIES TRUST (6 academies) · trust reserve £313,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it