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Barnes Primary School

Primary · London · SW13 0QQ

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Outstanding

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: OutstandingBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: OutstandingSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 3 November 2022

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At a glance

470 pupils · 98% of 480 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
1.5% of pupils
English as additional language
16.7% of pupils
SEN support
9.8% of pupils
EHC plan
2.8% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.barnesprimaryschool.co.uk
URN
102902

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.78 first-choice applications per place

60 places offered · 107 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed

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

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 557.26 m (≈0.35 mi)

measured by shortest walking route.

Cutoff distance by entry year

24
25
26

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
96%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
39%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
114
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
112
England 105

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

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
2.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
3.4%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
20.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 2% 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£7,347
Typical primary school£6,960

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.

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