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Shaftesbury Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Academy
Shaftesbury Road, Forest Gate, London E7 8PF · shaftesburyprimaryschool.co.uk · 020 8472 0761
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Nov 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 89%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Newham 76%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Newham Council
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 640
- 10 over 630 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Newham
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 27.4%
- First language not English
- 88.1%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- The Boleyn Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Newham Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 61 families put the school first and 90 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 | 90 | 61 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 75 | 48 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 82 | 55 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 84 | 59 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 73 | 50 | 0.7 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 89% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 22% the higher standard. Across Newham it was 76%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲89% | 62% | ||
| ▲22% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲109 | 106 | ||
| ▲109 | 105 | ||
| ▲112 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 102744)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Shaftesbury Primary School on 11 November 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional
- Achievement: Exceptional
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Exceptional
- Leadership and governance: Strong standard
- Inspected
- 11 Nov 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Exceptional |
| Achievement | Exceptional |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Exceptional |
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard |
Previously: Remains Outstanding, ungraded inspection, Nov 2021
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 102744), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2021Ungraded inspectionRemains Outstanding
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2016Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 102744)
Oct 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 102744)
What parents said
96% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (54 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 96%
- Positive
- 87%
- Replies
- 54
- 9% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 96% who raised concerns
based on 8 parents (15%) whose child was bullied
based on 7 parents (13%) with SEND