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Cavendish Primary School

Primary · London · W4 2RG

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

Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 26 January 2026

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At a glance

197 pupils · 83% of 236 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
24.2% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
49.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
12.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
5% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.cavendishschool.org.uk/
URN
102472

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 18 families named it first for 27 Reception places, 0.67 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2022 entry went to 1.13 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 5 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2022 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 25 November 2025, 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 7.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.67 first-choice applications per place

27 places offered · 18 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 (2022 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.13 miles

measurement method not stated by the council.

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
73%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
7%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
106
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 school73%
Median of its 12 closest peers71%
Hounslow average70.6%
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
David Livingstone AcademyThornton Heath · 8 miles awayOutstanding (2019)88%
Our Lady of Lourdes RC SchoolLondon · 9 miles awayGood66%
St Peter's Methodist Primary SchoolCanterbury · 59 miles awayNo current grade63%
St John Vianney RC Primary SchoolLondon · 10 miles awayOutstanding77%
St Mary's Bryanston Square CofE SchoolLondon · 5 miles awayGood87%
Green Oaks Primary AcademyNorthampton · 61 miles awayGood (2018)53%
St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary SchoolBromley · 11 miles awayGood68%
Pemberley AcademyHarlow · 25 miles awayGood67%
Chalfont Valley E-ACT Primary AcademyAmersham · 19 miles awayGood73%
St Theresa's Catholic Primary SchoolLondon · 8 miles awayGood69%
Oxford Road Community SchoolReading · 31 miles awayNo current grade86%
Hannah Ball AcademyHigh Wycombe · 23 miles awayRequires improvement78%

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.

Resourced provision
15 of 16 places taken nearly full

Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 39% (Hounslow 14%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 12% (Hounslow 5%, England 3%) · Any other White background 12% (Hounslow 15%, England 7%) · Any other ethnic group 8% (Hounslow 11%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 8% (Hounslow 6%, England 2%) · Black African 6% (Hounslow 7%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 4% (Hounslow 1%, England 2%) · Not recorded 3% (Hounslow 2%, England 1%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Hounslow 8%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Hounslow 3%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 2% (Hounslow 24%, England 4%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Hounslow 1%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Hounslow 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)
7.4%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
22.2%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

1.68 suspensions per 100 pupils and 1 permanent exclusion · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Hounslow: 1.66 suspensions and 0.04 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
19.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year

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)

45.5% of teachers took sickness absence, 2.2 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 £55,752; 18.2% 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£10,458
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 74% (76%) · premises 7% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 7% (8%) · supplies and services 10% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 6% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve -£751,022; in-year balance -£250,730

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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)
4/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
3/10more deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher41.5%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work34.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways22.4%18.1%
Residents in very good health48.6%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier33.4%62.3%
Social housing46.4%17.1%
Privately rented19.4%20.5%
Detached houses1.5%22.9%
Flats66.1%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms9%21.1%
Households with no car or van42.8%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01002572 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£995,000349 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£525,000–£1,580,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (20)£2,660,000
Semi-detached (71)£1,778,000
Terraced (113)£1,250,000
Flat (145)£490,000

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

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
2an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
11an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
37an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
10an 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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