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Glebe Primary School

Primary · Harrow · HA3 9LF

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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: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 14 July 2026 · report published 7 October 2026

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At a glance

566 pupils · 83% of 682 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
9.2% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
92.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
10% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
2.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.glebe.harrow.sch.uk/
URN
102224

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 43 families named it first for 54 Reception places, 0.80 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2023 entry went to 0.939 miles; distance decided places in 5 of the 12 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2009 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 14 July 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 4.9% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.80 first-choice applications per place

54 places offered · 43 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 (2023 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.939 miles

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
56%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
3%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
105
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 school56%
Median of its 12 closest peers69.5%
Harrow average73.7%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind 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
St Lawrence Catholic Primary SchoolFeltham · 11 miles awayExpected standard69%
Wensley Fold CofE Primary AcademyBlackburn · 175 miles awayOutstanding83%
Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior SchoolHarrow · 4 miles awayGood83%
Rushey Mead Primary SchoolLeicester · 81 miles awayGood46%
Khalsa Primary SchoolSlough · 13 miles awayOutstanding86%
Alexandra Primary SchoolHounslow · 9 miles awayGood68%
Mayflower Primary SchoolLeicester · 79 miles awayRequires improvement60%
Wellington Primary SchoolHounslow · 9 miles awayGood (2019)85%
Abbey Mead Primary AcademyLeicester · 81 miles awayOutstanding70%
Avanti Court Primary SchoolBarkingside · 16 miles awayGood83%
Spinney Hill Primary SchoolLeicester · 80 miles awayGood69%
Mellor Community Primary SchoolLEICESTER · 81 miles awayGood59%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

Asian Indian 43% (Harrow 31%, England 4%) · Any other White background 28% (Harrow 18%, England 7%) · Any other Asian background 11% (Harrow 15%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 5% (Harrow 6%, England 3%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Harrow 4%, England 5%) · White British 2% (Harrow 7%, England 60%) · Black African 1% (Harrow 4%, England 5%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Harrow 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Harrow 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Harrow 1%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Harrow 1%, England 1%) · other groups together 2%

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)
4.9%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
15.5%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.52 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
12
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

75% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 17% moved to another state school · 7% 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)

46.8% of teachers took sickness absence, 6.2 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 £54,964; 13.2% 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£7,724
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 75% (76%) · premises 3% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 10% (8%) · supplies and services 12% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 7% (3%) · catering 6% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve -£889,894; in-year balance -£147,002

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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)
5/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher32.9%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications28.2%18.1%
In managerial or professional work23.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways19.8%18.1%
Residents in very good health51.1%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier52.9%62.3%
Social housing16.9%17.1%
Privately rented30%20.5%
Detached houses4.2%22.9%
Flats12.7%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms26.8%21.1%
Households with no car or van23.2%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01002167 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£550,000226 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£383,000–£617,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Semi-detached (89)£600,000
Terraced (69)£560,000
Flat (65)£335,000

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 (1.51 km, 2023 entry): 543 sales, median £580,000. 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
5an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
13an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
59an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
7an 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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