St Mary's and St John's CofE School
All-through · London · NW4 4QR
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 28 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,651 pupils · 93% of 1,780 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 28% of pupils (January 2026)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.smsj.barnet.sch.uk
- URN
- 151504
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 164 families named it first for 81 Year 7 places, 2.02 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 0.42 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 11 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2015 to 2025. Ofsted last graded it Good on 28 February 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.1% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place55 places offered · 49 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
2.02 first-choice applications per place81 places offered · 164 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2019 entry)
- Any other applicants
- 1.327 miles
2019 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 0.42 miles
measurement method not stated by the council.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2025 entry)
- Faith - Anglican
- 3.609 miles
- Faith - Other Christian
- 1.024 miles
The criteria above are applied in the order the school sets out in its admission arrangements, and distance is the last of them. A wider figure under one of them is not a wider catchment: it is how far the school reached among children who already met that criterion, before distance decided anything. A child living closer than that figure, who met none of those criteria, was still offered a place only within the distance cutoff above.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: London school admissions · Barnet school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Any other White background 29% (Barnet 20%, England 7%) · Any other ethnic group 18% (Barnet 12%, England 3%) · Black African 9% (Barnet 8%, England 5%) · White British 8% (Barnet 23%, England 59%) · Asian Indian 7% (Barnet 8%, England 4%) · Any other Asian background 5% (Barnet 4%, England 3%) · Asian Chinese 5% (Barnet 2%, England 1%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Barnet 7%, England 3%) · Black Caribbean 3% (Barnet 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 3% (Barnet 1%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 2% (Barnet 1%, England 1%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Barnet 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Barnet 3%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Barnet 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Barnet 1%, England 2%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Barnet 1%, England 2%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £55,622; 13.7% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 52.2% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 11.7% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 43.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 16.4% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 57.4% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 54.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 5.6% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 39.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 21.1% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 61% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 33.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 26.1% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01000241 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £500,000343 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £362,500–£792,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
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
- 5an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 11an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 62an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 4an 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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