St Mary's and St John's CofE School
All-through · London · NW4 4QR
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
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1,651 pupils · 93% of 1,780 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 28% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.smsj.barnet.sch.uk
- URN
- 151504
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place55 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 demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
2.02 first-choice applications per place81 places offered · 164 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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
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.
Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
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)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for 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 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% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01000241 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,438 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
- £500,000317 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £360,000–£800,000the 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.
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
- 5an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 11an urban school averages 5.8
- All reported collisions
- 62an urban school averages 30.6
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 4an 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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