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Tolworth Junior School

Primary · Surbiton · KT6 7SA

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Outstanding

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Quality of education: OutstandingBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: OutstandingSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 10 December 2024

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At a glance

379 pupils · 97% of 390 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
7–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
17.4% of pupils
English as additional language
32.4% of pupils
SEN support
25% of pupils
EHC plan
5% of pupils
Website
http://www.tolworthj.kingston.sch.uk/
URN
102574

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 3

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 (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 243 m (≈0.15 mi)

measured in a straight line.

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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)

110 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
10%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
109
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
108
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 school66%
Median of its 12 closest peers70%
Kingston upon Thames average66.3%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind 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
Holy Trinity CofE Junior SchoolWallington · 6 miles awayGood72%
Earlswood Junior SchoolRedhill · 12 miles awayGood74%
Hill View Primary SchoolBanbury · 66 miles awayGood56%
St. Margaret's CofE Junior SchoolLeamington Spa · 81 miles awayGood72%
Oakridge Junior SchoolBasingstoke · 35 miles awayGood77%
St Anne's CofE Primary SchoolSale · 164 miles awayGood66%
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolChester · 166 miles awayGood (2015)61%
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary SchoolWakefield · 165 miles awayRequires improvement45%
Sharmans Cross Junior SchoolSolihull · 96 miles awayNeeds attention68%
Hampton Hill Junior SchoolHampton · 4 miles awayGood81%
Woodwater AcademyExeter · 146 miles awayGood65%
Alfred Salter Primary SchoolLondon · 13 miles awayGood73%

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.

Special educational needs

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

Provision type: Resourced provision.

Resourced provision
12 of 12 places taken full, or over capacity

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.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
8.6%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
21.5
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school

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.

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)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth 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 higher56%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications10%18.1%
In managerial or professional work51.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health58.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier70%62.3%
Social housing3.2%17.1%
Privately rented26.6%20.5%
Detached houses19.1%22.9%
Flats28.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms27.2%21.1%
Households with no car or van19.6%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01002996 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,208 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
£579,000582 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£390,000–£750,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (45)£895,000
Semi-detached (188)£744,500
Terraced (121)£650,000
Flat (228)£365,000

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 Year 3 cutoff distance (0.24 km, 2025 entry): 47 sales, median £755,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

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
1an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
8an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
46an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
7an 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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