Kensington Primary School
Primary · London · E12 6NN
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 23 April 2026
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628 pupils · 100% of 630 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 33.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 80.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 144141
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.88 first-choice applications per place69 places offered · 61 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 (2025 entry) lived within 0.67 miles
measured by shortest walking route.
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)
75 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)
88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 6% 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: Expected standard
- 1 December 2021: School remains Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.