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Harris Primary Academy Shortlands
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Harris Primary Academy Shortlands

PrimaryAges 4–11Free school

Bromley, BR2 0HG · Bromley local authority

Bromley’s School Grade A better than 91% of towns in England

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Its letter
93%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
25/25
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
383 pupils
91% of its 420 places
Free school meals
16%
16 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Harris Primary Academy Shortlands

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 93% of England’s primary schools
  • 81% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, March 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 25)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BR2 0) sold for a median £465,000; Bromley’s is £515,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 81%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 93% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Bromley avg 69%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Harris Primary Academy Shortlands 81%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading84%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)80%
England’s schools 73%
Maths82%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling86%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three16%
England’s schools 8% · Bromley 13% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Harris Primary Academy Shortlands?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

25
families put it first for September 2026
48
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (5), 2020 (8). 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. Harris Federation sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bromley council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Bromley, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.95 per place
50% got their first choice
1.80 per place
44% got their first choice
1.55 per place
62% got their first choice
1.50 per place
65% got their first choice
1.47 per place
61% got their first choice
1.38 per place
71% got their first choice
1.37 per place
73% got their first choice
1.35 per place
73% got their first choice
1.33 per place
73% got their first choice
Harris Primary Academy Shortlands
0.52 per place
100% got their first choice

Bromley and Bromley, side by side

2023–2025

All 70 graded primaries in Bromley. 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. Bromley’s schools are coloured by their letter.

25%38%51%64%77%90%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Harris Primary Academy Shortlands
ABCDElsewhere in BromleyHarris Primary Academy Shortlands
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St James' Roman Catholic Primary SchoolA+3%95%
La Fontaine AcademyA+10%92%
Perry Hall Primary SchoolA+5%89%
Crofton Junior SchoolA+6%88%
Harris Primary Academy Beckenham GreenA+22%86%
Highfield Junior SchoolA+5%85%
Downe Primary SchoolA+26%85%
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary SchoolA+16%84%
Valley Primary SchoolA+10%83%
Gray's Farm Primary AcademyA+34%83%
Burnt Ash Primary SchoolA24%82%
Clare House Primary SchoolA6%82%
Harris Primary Academy ShortlandsA16%81%
Warren Road Primary SchoolA2%80%
St Vincent's Catholic Primary SchoolA9%80%
Tubbenden Primary SchoolA8%79%
Harris Primary Academy BeckenhamA8%79%
Marian Vian Primary SchoolA18%78%
St Philomena's Primary SchoolA13%77%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA6%76%
St George's, Bickley, Church of England Primary SchoolA6%76%
Alexandra Junior SchoolA−10%75%
Balgowan Primary SchoolA−4%74%
St Nicholas Church of England PrimaryA−2%74%
St Mark's Church of England Primary SchoolA−13%74%
Hayes Primary SchoolA−4%73%
Parish Church of England Primary SchoolA−14%73%
Oak Lodge Primary SchoolA−10%73%
The Highway Primary SchoolA−17%73%
Bickley Primary SchoolA−5%73%
Pickhurst AcademyA−8%72%
Orion Scotts ParkA−13%71%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolA−6%71%
Holy Innocents Catholic Primary SchoolA−5%71%
Wickham Common Primary SchoolA−6%71%
Darrick Wood Junior SchoolB+17%70%
Red Hill Primary SchoolB+15%70%
Harris Primary Academy Kent HouseB+29%69%
Harris Primary Academy Crystal PalaceB+40%69%
Langley Park Primary SchoolB+10%69%
Orion BlenheimB+38%69%
Hawes Down Primary SchoolB+4%68%
Churchfields Primary SchoolB+12%68%
Farnborough Primary SchoolB6%67%
Harris Primary Academy OrpingtonB39%67%
Green Street Green Primary SchoolB11%67%
Stewart Fleming Primary SchoolB15%66%
Edgebury Primary SchoolB−9%64%
Raglan Primary SchoolB−9%64%
St Anthony's Catholic Primary SchoolB−27%64%
Unicorn Primary SchoolB−7%61%
Pratts Bottom Primary SchoolC+13%59%
Southborough Primary SchoolC+22%59%
James Dixon Primary SchoolC+29%58%
Keston Church of England Primary SchoolC9%57%
Poverest Primary SchoolC24%56%
Manor Oak Primary SchoolC34%56%
Midfield Primary SchoolC21%56%
Cudham Church of England Primary SchoolC27%56%
Elmstead Wood Primary SchoolC34%55%
Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolC30%55%
Worsley Bridge Primary SchoolC26%54%
Orion RavensworthC−37%53%
Chelsfield Primary SchoolC−26%53%
Biggin Hill Primary SchoolC−14%50%
St. Mary Cray Primary AcademyC−34%50%
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolD46%47%
Oaklands Primary AcademyD16%45%
St Paul's Cray Church of England Primary SchoolD44%39%
Leesons Primary SchoolD−40%28%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

391 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.

SEN support
15.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
38.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
16.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

Harris Primary Academy Shortlands’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 93% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, March 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Harris Primary Academy Shortlands

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in BR2 0, the school’s postcode sector

Bromley property prices →
£465,000
median sale, 546 sales in 36 months · Bromley £515,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025BR2 0Bromley
BR2 0Bromley

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£970K
Semi-detached
£740K
Terraced
£580K
Flat
£340K
BR2 0Bromley

Homes in BR2 0 sell for a little under Bromley’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 schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDBA−AA−A−A+A−B−A+A−AA+AA−A−B−AB+AAA+A−BAHarris Primary Academy Shor…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Bromley, BR2 0HG

Harris Primary Academy Shortlands: common questions

Is Harris Primary Academy Shortlands a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 93% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 81% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, March 2024.

How hard is it to get into Harris Primary Academy Shortlands?

For September 2026, 25 families put Harris Primary Academy Shortlands first and all of them were offered a place; 48 places were offered in all.

What is Harris Primary Academy Shortlands’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (March 2024).

How much do houses cost near Harris Primary Academy Shortlands?

Homes in its postcode sector, BR2 0, sold for a median £465,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (546 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; Bromley’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.