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Elmgrove Primary School & Nursery

Primary · Harrow · HA3 8LU

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Good

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.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 19 September 2023

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At a glance

805 pupils · 93% of 870 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
16.8% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
74.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
14.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
4.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.elmgrove.harrow.sch.uk
URN
102211

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 76 families named it first for 94 Reception places, 0.81 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2011 entry went to 2.315 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 12 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2009 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 19 September 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.2% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.81 first-choice applications per place

94 places offered · 76 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. 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 (2011 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.315 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)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
66%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
5%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
104
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
104
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 school66%
Median of its 12 closest peers67.5%
Harrow average73.7%
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
Chadwell Primary SchoolRomford · 19 miles awayGood60%
Horsenden Primary SchoolGreenford · 3 miles awayGood69%
Barham Primary SchoolWembley · 3 miles awayGood (2016)76%
Hounslow Town Primary SchoolHounslow · 8 miles awayExpected standard50%
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolBournemouth · 91 miles awayGood67%
Chase Lane Primary SchoolLondon · 13 miles awayGood69%
Newbury Park Primary SchoolIlford · 18 miles awayGood61%
Grove Primary SchoolRomford · 19 miles awayOutstanding (2019)79%
Belmont SchoolHarrow · under 1 mile awayGood56%
Valence Primary SchoolDagenham · 20 miles awayGood60%
Barley Lane Primary SchoolRomford · 19 miles awayGood (2016)68%
Lake Farm Park AcademyHayes · 7 miles awayGood77%

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

Special educational needs

Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.

Provision type: Resourced provision.

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

Asian Indian 25% (Harrow 31%, England 4%) · Any other White background 23% (Harrow 18%, England 7%) · Any other Asian background 11% (Harrow 15%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 7% (Harrow 6%, England 3%) · Asian Pakistani 6% (Harrow 4%, England 5%) · White British 5% (Harrow 7%, England 60%) · Black African 5% (Harrow 4%, England 5%) · Not recorded 4% (Harrow 1%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 3% (Harrow 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 3% (Harrow 3%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Harrow 4%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 1% (Harrow 1%, England 1%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Harrow 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Harrow 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Harrow 1%, England 1%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Harrow 1%, 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)
6.2%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
19.9%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.62 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Harrow: 0.77 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
21.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 14% 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)

75% of teachers took sickness absence, 6.4 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 £58,832; 12.8% 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£7,609
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 70% (76%) · premises 4% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 9% (8%) · supplies and services 18% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 15% (3%) · catering 5% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £407,859; in-year balance -£106,909

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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)
3/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher38.1%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications22.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work30.3%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways15.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health53.6%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier71.4%62.3%
Social housing7.1%17.1%
Privately rented21.4%20.5%
Detached houses4.9%22.9%
Flats8.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms29%21.1%
Households with no car or van17.5%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01002172 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£495,000312 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£346,500–£636,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (15)£880,000
Semi-detached (98)£640,000
Terraced (64)£575,000
Flat (135)£325,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (3.73 km, 2011 entry): 3,740 sales, median £545,000. 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
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
5an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
26an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
1an 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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