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St George's CofE Primary School

Primary · London · SE23 2NE

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Strong standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Strong standardAchievement: Strong standardAttendance & behaviour: Strong standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Strong standardEarly years: Strong standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 19 May 2026 · report published 28 June 2026

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At a glance

206 pupils · 69% of 300 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
41% of pupils
English as additional language
47.1% of pupils
SEN support
22.1% of pupils
EHC plan
4.9% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.stgeorges.lewisham.sch.uk/
URN
145621

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.93 first-choice applications per place

27 places offered · 25 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
75%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
11%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
108
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
106
England 105

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

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school75%
Median of its 12 closest peers61%
Lewisham average68.5%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Whitehall Park SchoolLondon · 10 miles awayGood46%
Newtown Primary SchoolWest Bromwich · 113 miles awayGood48%
Friars Primary Foundation SchoolLondon · 5 miles awayGood68%
St Mary's RC Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolLondon · 5 miles awayGood58%
Saint Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolLondon · 9 miles awayGood76%
St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolLondon · 4 miles awayGood70%
Barton Park Primary SchoolOxford · 55 miles awayGood55%
Reay Primary SchoolLONDON · 4 miles awayGood77%
Endeavour Primary AcademyHyde · 163 miles awayGood64%
Gorse Hill Primary SchoolManchester · 169 miles awayGood63%
Kingsway Community Primary SchoolLeamington Spa · 86 miles awayGood32%
Braybrook Primary AcademyPeterborough · 77 miles awayGood59%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
3.6%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7.2%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.5
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 9% 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£9,477
Typical primary school£6,959

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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
3/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
3/10more deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher56.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications14.4%18.1%
In managerial or professional work47.6%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways23%18.1%
Residents in very good health54.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier37.2%62.3%
Social housing34%17.1%
Privately rented28.6%20.5%
Detached houses1.8%22.9%
Flats85.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms8.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van59.3%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01003310 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,340 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£475,000835 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£368,000–£680,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (25)£1,100,000
Semi-detached (80)£881,000
Terraced (216)£695,000
Flat (514)£390,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
4an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
16an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
124an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
16an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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