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Millfields Community School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Community school
Hilsea Street, Hackney, London E5 0SH · millfields.hackney.sch.uk · 020 8985 7898
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Feb 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 69%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Hackney 76%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hackney Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 634
- 93% of 680 places
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 26.5%
- First language not English
- 29.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Hackney Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 42 families put the school first and 55 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 55 | 42 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 83 | 62 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 76 | 73 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 86 | 85 | 1 | 92% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 102 | 1.1▲ | 84% |
Results
In 2024/25, 69% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 13% the higher standard. Across Hackney it was 76%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲69% | 62% | ||
| ▲13% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●108 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 8 February 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Millfields Community School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 7 Feb 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2012
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Dec 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Nov 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Dec 2010Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (205 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 205
- 32% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied
based on 35 parents (17%) with SEND