Wendell Park Primary School
Primary · London · W12 9LB
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 29 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
391 pupils · 83% of 472 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 24.3% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 65.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 13.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 4.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.wendellpark.lbhf.sch.uk
- URN
- 100340
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 43 families named it first for 56 Reception places, 0.77 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2016 entry went to 0.2822 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 8 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2015 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 29 November 2022, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.77 first-choice applications per place56 places offered · 43 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2016 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.2822 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
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Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
49 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025
On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Any other ethnic group 24% (Hammersmith and Fulham 13%, England 3%) · White British 14% (Hammersmith and Fulham 22%, England 60%) · Any other White background 13% (Hammersmith and Fulham 18%, England 7%) · Black African 12% (Hammersmith and Fulham 12%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 11% (Hammersmith and Fulham 8%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 9% (Hammersmith and Fulham 5%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 5% (Hammersmith and Fulham 2%, England 1%) · Not recorded 4% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 4%, England 2%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 4%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 2%, England 1%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 5%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
1.77 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Hammersmith and Fulham: 1.30 suspensions and 0.00 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 16% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
68.2% of teachers took sickness absence, 5 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £59,917; 21.7% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
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Spending per pupil (2025-26)
Where the money went (2025-26)
Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 63% (76%) · premises 6% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 9% (8%) · supplies and services 22% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 17% (3%) · catering 5% (5%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve £434,615; in-year balance -£10,870
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Inspection history since 2015
- 29 November 2022: Good
- 9 May 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 62.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 9.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 55% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 12.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 63% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 54.5% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 15% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 30.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 1.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 51.1% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 22.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 42.4% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01001865 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £627,500922 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £433,000–£1,100,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (0.45 km, 2016 entry): 294 sales, median £565,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 1an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 14an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 102an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 11an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted