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Thomson House School

Primary · London · SW14 8HY

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Outstanding

SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection

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

Inspected 1 July 2025

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At a glance

366 pupils · 87% of 420 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Free schools
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
10.4% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
31.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
8.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.thomsonhouseschool.org
URN
139549

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 45 families named it first for 55 Reception places, 0.82 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1003.96 m (≈0.62 mi); distance decided places in 10 of the 12 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2015 to 2026. At its inspection on 1 July 2025 Ofsted awarded no overall grade; the lowest of the four areas it judged was Outstanding. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.82 first-choice applications per place

55 places offered · 45 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 (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1003.96 m (≈0.62 mi)

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
88%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
33%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
110
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
110
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 school88%
Median of its 12 closest peers77.5%
Richmond upon Thames average78.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of 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
St Stephen's Catholic Primary SchoolWelling · 16 miles awayExceptional93%
St Louis Catholic Primary SchoolAylesbury · 34 miles awayGood79%
Krishna Avanti Primary SchoolLeicester · 87 miles awayGood73%
Grove Park Primary SchoolLondon · 1 miles awayOutstanding93%
Belleville Wix AcademyLondon · 5 miles awayGood61%
Princess Frederica CofE Primary SchoolLondon · 5 miles awayGood84%
Brambleside Primary SchoolKettering · 68 miles awayStrong standard67%
Haydn Primary SchoolNottingham · 111 miles awayGood82%
Our Lady of Peace Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolSlough · 17 miles awayGood (2019)74%
The Cathedral Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, ChelmsfordChelmsford · 37 miles awayStrong standard74%
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolSlough · 12 miles awayStrong standard77%
All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary SchoolCarshalton · 9 miles awayNo current grade78%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 50% (Richmond upon Thames 47%, England 60%) · Any other White background 23% (Richmond upon Thames 19%, England 7%) · Any other ethnic group 6% (Richmond upon Thames 4%, England 3%) · Any other Mixed background 5% (Richmond upon Thames 6%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Richmond upon Thames 5%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 2% (Richmond upon Thames 2%, England 1%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Richmond upon Thames 4%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 2% (Richmond upon Thames 4%, England 4%) · Black African 2% (Richmond upon Thames 1%, England 5%) · White Irish 1% (Richmond upon Thames 1%, England 0%) · Any other Black background 1% (Richmond upon Thames 0%, England 1%) · Not recorded 1% (Richmond upon Thames 2%, England 1%) · other groups together 1%

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)
3.4%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
5.3%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Richmond upon Thames: 0.47 suspensions and 0.00 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
20.3
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 13% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

60% of teachers took sickness absence, 1.8 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 £50,765; 19% 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 (2024-25)

This school£7,353
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 65% (77%) · premises 6% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 12% (8%) · supplies and services 17% (9%) · educational supplies 4% (4%) · bought-in professional services 4% (2%) · catering 7% (5%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £0; in-year balance -£7,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
4/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
5/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher56.2%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications11.7%18.1%
In managerial or professional work49.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways17.7%18.1%
Residents in very good health56.2%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier39.5%62.3%
Social housing33.4%17.1%
Privately rented27.1%20.5%
Detached houses2.7%22.9%
Flats64.2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms6.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van39%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01003855 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£949,500758 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£610,000–£1,312,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (23)£1,750,000
Semi-detached (115)£1,337,000
Terraced (353)£1,145,000
Flat (267)£500,000

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 Reception cutoff distance (0.49 km, 2020 entry): 259 sales, median £770,500. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

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
8an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
68an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
21an 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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