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Park Walk Primary School

Primary · London · SW10 0AY

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Expected standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Expected standardAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Expected standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Strong standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 20 January 2026 · report published 12 March 2026

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At a glance

192 pupils · 81% of 236 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
36.4% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
40.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
6.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
5.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.parkwalk.rbkc.sch.uk
URN
100486

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 23 families named it first for 29 Reception places, 0.79 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1.127 miles; distance decided places in 3 of the 8 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2009 to 2025. At its report-card inspection on 20 January 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Expected standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5.6% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.79 first-choice applications per place

29 places offered · 23 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 1.127 miles for 2025 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 1.127 miles

measured in a straight line.

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

27 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
67%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
11%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
107
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
107
England 105

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

This school67%
Median of its 12 closest peers64.5%
Kensington and Chelsea average75.6%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is in line with 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.

SchoolOfstedResult
Whitefield Community Primary SchoolManchester · 168 miles awayGood63%
Outwood Primary SchoolCheadle · 156 miles awayGood66%
Pimlico PrimaryLondon · 2 miles awayGood52%
St Barnabas and St Philip's CofE Primary SchoolLondon · 1 miles awayGood89%
St Matthew's Bloxam CofE Primary SchoolRugby · 77 miles awayNeeds attention56%
Windermere Primary SchoolSt. Albans · 19 miles awayRequires improvement48%
All Saints' CofE Primary School NW2London · 5 miles awayGood55%
St James & St John Church of England Primary SchoolLondon · 2 miles awayStrong standard95%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolLondon · 2 miles awayGood90%
Ridgefield Primary SchoolCambridge · 51 miles awayGood80%
Lowther Primary SchoolLondon · 3 miles awayGood79%
Barley Close Community Primary SchoolBristol · 99 miles awayRequires improvement47%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

Any other White background 21% (Kensington and Chelsea 21%, England 7%) · White British 20% (Kensington and Chelsea 18%, England 60%) · Any other ethnic group 19% (Kensington and Chelsea 16%, England 3%) · Black African 9% (Kensington and Chelsea 9%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Kensington and Chelsea 12%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 4% (Kensington and Chelsea 1%, England 1%) · Any other Asian background 3% (Kensington and Chelsea 2%, England 2%) · Asian Bangladeshi 3% (Kensington and Chelsea 1%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 3% (Kensington and Chelsea 1%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 3% (Kensington and Chelsea 4%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Kensington and Chelsea 2%, England 1%) · White Irish 2% (Kensington and Chelsea 0%, England 0%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Kensington and Chelsea 1%, England 1%) · Asian Indian 1% (Kensington and Chelsea 1%, England 4%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Kensington and Chelsea 4%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Kensington and Chelsea 3%, England 2%) · Not recorded 1% (Kensington and Chelsea 5%, England 1%)

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
5.6%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
18.5%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

3.76 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Kensington and Chelsea: 1.98 suspensions and 0.00 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.2
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 12% 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)

63.6% of teachers took sickness absence, 12.6 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 £58,652; 27.3% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2025-26)

This school£13,760
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 62% (76%) · premises 8% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 10% (8%) · supplies and services 19% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 14% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £565,897; in-year balance +£155,197

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
7/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher64.2%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications9.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work54.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways12.8%18.1%
Residents in very good health63.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier35.7%62.3%
Social housing16.5%17.1%
Privately rented47.5%20.5%
Detached houses0.4%22.9%
Flats82.9%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms15.5%21.1%
Households with no car or van60.2%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01002912 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£1,150,0001,146 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£681,000–£2,280,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (6)£5,950,000
Semi-detached (21)£8,675,000
Terraced (208)£3,087,500
Flat (911)£930,000

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 (1.81 km, 2025 entry): 4,152 sales, median £956,000. 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
2an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
53an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
313an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
80an 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

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