Barclay Primary School
Primary · London · E10 6EJ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 3 February 2026 · report published 19 March 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,273 pupils · 100% of 1,260 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 26.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 59.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 7.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.barclayprimary.net
- URN
- 138690
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.92 first-choice applications per place180 places offered · 166 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 (2026 entry) lived within 1.02 miles
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
Would you have got in? Check your postcode Premium
Compare any postcode against this school's full cutoff history, with a likelihood band and nearby alternatives you'd be inside.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Would you have got in? Check your postcode Premium
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)
156 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)
68% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% moved to another state school · 29% 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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 3 February 2026: Exceptional
- 6 October 2021: School remains Outstanding
- 15 March 2016: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.