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Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation CofE Primary School

Primary · London · SW1P 2QQ

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 24 April 2024

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At a glance

180 pupils · 72% of 251 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
28.7% of pupils
English as additional language
45.8% of pupils
SEN support
13.7% of pupils
EHC plan
3.6% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.burdettcoutts.co.uk
URN
101122

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.93 first-choice applications per place

28 places offered · 26 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

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
88%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
25%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
111
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
109
England 105

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

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school88%
Median of its 12 closest peers61%
Westminster average73.7%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Chalfont Valley E-ACT Primary AcademyAmersham · 22 miles awayGood73%
Chesterton Primary SchoolCambridge · 52 miles awayNo current grade42%
Latchford St James CofE Primary SchoolWarrington · 166 miles awayGood52%
Hannah Ball AcademyHigh Wycombe · 27 miles awayRequires improvement78%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolSalford · 166 miles awayExpected standard70%
St Clement Danes CofE Primary SchoolLONDON · 1 miles awayOutstanding100%
Green Oaks Primary AcademyNorthampton · 62 miles awayGood (2018)53%
St Philip's CofE Aided Primary SchoolCambridge · 50 miles awayNeeds attention26%
St George's CofE SchoolKidderminster · 109 miles awayGood42%
Kings Furlong Junior SchoolBasingstoke · 45 miles awayGood55%
Drayton Park Primary SchoolLondon · 4 miles awayGood (2016)85%
St Anne's RC Primary SchoolManchester · 163 miles awayNo current grade67%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
8.8%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Teacher retention (2024/25)

62% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 38% 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£10,161
Typical primary school£6,959

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.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
6/10around the middle for England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
3/10more deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher50.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications12%18.1%
In managerial or professional work40.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways20.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health51.3%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier21%62.3%
Social housing42.9%17.1%
Privately rented36.2%20.5%
Detached houses0.4%22.9%
Flats98.1%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms3.1%21.1%
Households with no car or van68.5%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01004744 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,265 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£777,500866 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£565,000–£1,332,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Terraced (64)£2,282,500
Flat (801)£730,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
4an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
31an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
170an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
32an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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