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Dormers Wells Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Dormers Wells Lane, Southall UB1 3HX · dwps.co.uk · 020 8571 1230
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 64%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Ealing 69%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Ealing Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 418
- 50% of 840 places
- Local authority
- Ealing
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 40.5%
- First language not English
- 69.6%
- 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: Ealing Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 41 families put the school first and 41 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 | 41 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 49 | 47 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Ealing it was 69%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●64% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●105 | 106 | ||
| ●104 | 105 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 101937)
Ofsted
Dormers Wells Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 28 June 2022, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 28 Jun 2022
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Oct 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 101937), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Oct 2016Inadequate
Leadership and management Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 101937)
What parents said
83% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (23 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 83%
- Replies
- 23
- 7% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied