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Epsom Downs Community School & Early Years Centres

Primary · Epsom Downs · KT18 5RJ

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At a glance

417 pupils · 88% of 472 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
36.2% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.epsomdowns.surrey.sch.uk/
URN
150679

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

49 places offered · 49 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

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

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 (2022 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.763 km (≈0.47 mi)

measured in a straight line.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Special educational needs

Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.

Provision type: SEN unit.

SEN unit
14 of 14 places taken full, or over capacity

Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
23.5%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
18.1
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

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.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
4/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
4/10more 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 higher26.3%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications17.9%18.1%
In managerial or professional work30%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways23.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health49.5%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier53.9%62.3%
Social housing37.2%17.1%
Privately rented8.4%20.5%
Detached houses5.6%22.9%
Flats38.8%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms8.1%21.1%
Households with no car or van19.9%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01030640 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,206 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
£460,000337 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£365,000–£605,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (56)£760,000
Semi-detached (119)£550,000
Terraced (92)£415,000
Flat (70)£248,500

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

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (0.76 km, 2022 entry): 262 sales, median £440,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

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
2an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
2an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
16an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
2an 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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