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Baring Primary School

Primary · London · SE12 0NB

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At a glance

193 pupils · 80% of 240 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
24.6% of pupils
English as additional language
46.7% of pupils
SEN support
21.2% of pupils
EHC plan
2.8% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.baring.lewisham.sch.uk/
URN
100673

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.81 first-choice applications per place

16 places offered · 13 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

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 1735.69 m (≈1.08 mi)

measured in a straight line.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
54%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
4%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
102
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
102
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
14.5%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.2
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

96% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£9,025
Typical primary school£6,960

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

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