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Launcelot Primary School and Nursery

Primary · Bromley · BR1 5EA

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Needs attention

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: Needs attentionAchievement: Needs attentionAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Expected standardInclusion: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 6 May 2026 · report published 28 June 2026

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At a glance

307 pupils · 73% of 420 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
44.7% of pupils
English as additional language
48% of pupils
SEN support
18.5% of pupils
EHC plan
4.9% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.launcelot.lewisham.sch.uk/
URN
100692

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

29 places offered · 29 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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 6066.85 m (≈3.77 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)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
53%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
4%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
103
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
103
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)
5.2%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
14.6%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
15.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

93% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% 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£9,617
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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