Primary school
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This school
URN 150355 · LAESTAB 302/2066 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Barnet
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; B = Barnet 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%).
Arrows: change in London percentile points since 2018/19.
Pupils counted: 51 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.
Barnet Council, Reception, 2019/20–25. Barnet 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: Jan 2023 Ungraded visit · Oct 2021 Requires improvement · Feb 2018 Requires improvement · Nov 2013 Good · Feb 2012 Satisfactory · Jun 2009 Satisfactory · May 2006 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 (472 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 18.6, leadership 5, teaching assistants 24.11, support staff incl. TAs 35.16, whole workforce 53.76 (65 people), 19 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
- Barnet 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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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 13,985 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 93%
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 | 4 | 0 |
| 3rd | 9 | 0 |
- 2024/25Varies by rule
- 2023/24Varies by rule
- 2021/22Varies by rule
- 2019/20Varies by rule
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2006–2023
- 2006Goodas predecessor
- 2009Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2012Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2013Goodas predecessor
- 2018Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2021Requires improvementas predecessor
- 2023Ungraded visitas predecessor
3 strong areas
- Personal development
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Early years provision
2 weak areas
- Quality of education
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
5 areas graded · safeguarding effective · 2 points to improve · inspected as predecessor
Read what Ofsted said (4)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jan 2023 (inspected as predecessor)
Strengths
- “Since the previous inspection, there have been a number of changes to staffing and governance.”
- “You were appointed as headteacher in March 2022.”
- “To secure the necessary improvements, you are working closely with the executive headteacher, who also leads another local primary school.”
To improve
- “This includes ensuring that books are well matched to the sounds that pupils have learned.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 46.6%Boys 53.4%
83.5% full · 472 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 13.6
- Leadership 5
- Teaching assistants 24.1
- Other support 11
Teachers 18.6 FTE · Whole workforce 53.8 · 65 people
Financials · 2024/25
- −£81,000revenue reserve
- +£86,000in-year balance
Grants £8,909 · self-generated £163 · premises £412 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: SARACENS MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST (2 academies) · trust reserve £1,436,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it