Ark Atwood Primary Academy
Primary · London · W9 2JY
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.
Inspected 27 June 2024
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419 pupils · 93% of 450 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 46.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 25.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.arkatwoodprimary.org/
- URN
- 137323
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.86 first-choice applications per place58 places offered · 50 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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 (2024 entry) lived within 0.463 miles
measurement method not stated by the council.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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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)
55 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
72% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 28% 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
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy 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.