Willow Bank Primary School
Bexley, SE2 9XB · Bexley local authority
Bexley’s School Grade A better than 88% of towns in England
What stands out about Willow Bank Primary School
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 31% of England’s primary schools
- 56% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points below England’s schools
- Room to spare: 182 pupils for 420 places
- 56% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (11 of 11)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SE2 9) sold for a median £400,000; Bexley’s is £425,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 56%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 31% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Bexley avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 30 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Willow Bank Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Woodland Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bexley council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Bexley and Bexley, side by side
2023–2025All 55 graded primaries in Bexley. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bexley’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Stephen's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 3% | 91% |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | A+ | 20% | 91% |
| Birkbeck Primary School | A+ | 12% | 88% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | A+ | 9% | 88% |
| Leigh Stationers' Primary Academy | A+ | 2% | 86% |
| Upton Primary School | A+ | 9% | 84% |
| Peareswood Primary School | A+ | 47% | 83% |
| Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary | A | 20% | 81% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | A | 8% | 80% |
| Bursted Wood Primary School | A | 6% | 80% |
| Danson Primary School | A | 9% | 79% |
| Royal Park Primary Academy | A | 32% | 79% |
| St Fidelis Catholic Primary School | A | 25% | 78% |
| Hurst Primary School | A | 12% | 76% |
| Harris Garrard Academy | A− | 44% | 74% |
| Dulverton Primary School | A− | 5% | 73% |
| Barnehurst Junior School | A− | 17% | 73% |
| St Paulinus Church of England Primary School | A− | 11% | 73% |
| Crook Log Primary School | A− | 9% | 72% |
| Foster's Primary School | A− | 8% | 72% |
| East Wickham Primary Academy | A− | 35% | 71% |
| Belvedere Junior School | A− | 38% | 71% |
| Gravel Hill Primary School | B+ | 19% | 70% |
| Days Lane Primary School | B+ | 11% | 68% |
| Burnt Oak Junior School | B+ | 5% | 68% |
| Upland Primary School | B | 6% | 67% |
| Belmont Academy | B | 17% | 66% |
| Hook Lane Primary School | B | 18% | 66% |
| Christ Church (Erith) CofE Primary School | B | 23% | 65% |
| Brampton Primary Academy | B | 12% | 65% |
| Haberdashers' Crayford Primary | B | 28% | 65% |
| Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School | B− | 11% | 64% |
| Barrington Primary School | B− | 15% | 64% |
| Longlands Primary School | B− | 11% | 63% |
| Pelham Primary School | B− | 19% | 63% |
| St Augustine of Canterbury CofE Primary School | B− | 34% | 62% |
| Sherwood Park Primary School | B− | 27% | 62% |
| Old Bexley Church of England School | B− | 7% | 62% |
| Fairford Academy Barnehurst | B− | 40% | 61% |
| Orchard Primary School | C+ | 29% | 59% |
| Bedonwell Junior School | C+ | 27% | 59% |
| Mayplace Primary School | C+ | 15% | 58% |
| Lessness Heath Primary School | C | 23% | 57% |
| Hillsgrove Primary School | C | 20% | 57% |
| St Michael's East Wickham Church of England Primary School | C | 12% | 57% |
| Jubilee Primary School | C | 39% | 57% |
| Willow Bank Primary School | C | 56% | 56% |
| Holy Trinity Lamorbey Church of England School | C− | 10% | 53% |
| Northwood Primary School | C− | 39% | 53% |
| Northumberland Heath Primary School | C− | 57% | 51% |
| Castilion Primary School | C− | 25% | 50% |
| St. Paul's (Slade Green) Church of England Primary School | D | 45% | 47% |
| St Peter Chanel Catholic Primary School | D | 25% | 47% |
| Parkway Primary School | D | 38% | 40% |
| Hope Community School | D− | 47% | 33% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025210 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Willow Bank Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting March 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, April 2023.
Living near Willow Bank Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SE2 9, the school’s postcode sector
Bexley property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SE2 9 sell for a little under Bexley’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
26 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bexley, SE2 9XB
Willow Bank Primary School: common questions
Is Willow Bank Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 31% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 56% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in March 2026.
How hard is it to get into Willow Bank Primary School?
For September 2026, 11 families put Willow Bank Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 12 places were offered in all.
What is Willow Bank Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Willow Bank Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SE2 9, sold for a median £400,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (208 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Bexley’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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