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Earlsmead Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Arundel Drive, South Harrow, Harrow HA2 8PW · earlsmeadprimaryschool.co.uk · 020 8864 5546
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2020
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 55%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Harrow 72%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Harrow Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 344
- 82% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Harrow
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 31.3%
- First language not English
- 72.7%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Tithe Academy
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Harrow Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 25 families put the school first and 26 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 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 33 | 28 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 34 | 19 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 31 | 29 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 21 | 14 | 0.7 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 55% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 5% the higher standard. Across Harrow it was 72%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼55% | 62% | ||
| ▼5% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 102219)
Ofsted
Earlsmead Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 11 February 2020, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jun 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2020
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 102219), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2020Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jul 2016Inadequate
Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 102219)
What parents said
81% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (16 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 81%
- Replies
- 16
- 5% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied