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Cherry Orchard Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Community

Greenwich, SE7 7DG · Greenwich local authority

Greenwich’s School Grade A− better than 82% of towns in England

Its letter
87%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
17/17
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
174 pupils
83% of its 210 places
Free school meals
44%
44 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Cherry Orchard Primary School

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 87% of England’s primary schools
  • 77% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15 points above England’s schools
  • 44% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (17 of 17)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE7 7) sold for a median £475,000; Greenwich’s is £460,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 77%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 87% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Greenwich avg 71%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Cherry Orchard Primary 77%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading83%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)83%
England’s schools 73%
Maths87%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling87%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
80%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
80%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three13%
England’s schools 8% · Greenwich 15% · 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 Cherry Orchard Primary School?

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

17
families put it first for September 2026
21
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 (18), 2020 (5), 2021 (2). 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. Greenwich council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Greenwich council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Greenwich, September 2026

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

2.54 per place
39% got their first choice
1.40 per place
68% got their first choice
1.40 per place
71% got their first choice
1.35 per place
73% got their first choice
1.34 per place
73% got their first choice
1.30 per place
74% got their first choice
1.27 per place
76% got their first choice
1.20 per place
72% got their first choice
1.14 per place
88% got their first choice
Cherry Orchard Primary
0.81 per place
100% got their first choice

Greenwich and Greenwich, side by side

2023–2025

All 62 graded primaries in Greenwich. 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. Greenwich’s schools are coloured by their letter.

55%61%67%73%79%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Cherry Orchard
ABCDElsewhere in GreenwichCherry Orchard Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA+11%88%
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary SchoolA+21%86%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolA+29%85%
Meridian Primary SchoolA+15%84%
Wingfield Primary SchoolA+19%83%
Alderwood Primary SchoolA57%82%
Sherington Primary SchoolA16%81%
Eltham Church of England Primary SchoolA12%81%
Notre Dame Catholic Primary SchoolA34%81%
Deansfield Primary SchoolA11%80%
Foxfield Primary SchoolA31%79%
St Thomas More Catholic Primary SchoolA34%78%
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary SchoolA26%78%
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolA44%77%
Nightingale Primary SchoolA42%77%
St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolA21%76%
St Thomas A Becket Roman Catholic Primary SchoolA34%76%
Hawksmoor SchoolA48%76%
Bannockburn Primary SchoolA16%76%
Christ Church Church of England Primary School, Shooters HillA−13%75%
Conway Primary SchoolA−26%75%
Ealdham Primary SchoolA−43%74%
Heronsgate Primary SchoolA−29%74%
Rockliffe Manor Primary SchoolA−46%74%
Boxgrove Primary SchoolA−44%74%
Gordon Primary SchoolA−14%72%
Halstow Primary SchoolA−16%72%
Fossdene Primary SchoolA−41%71%
Plumcroft Primary SchoolA−30%71%
Cardwell Primary SchoolA−45%71%
Discovery Primary SchoolA−26%71%
South Rise Primary SchoolA−42%71%
Thorntree Primary SchoolB+29%70%
Horn Park Primary SchoolB+44%70%
Kidbrooke Park Primary SchoolB+47%70%
Haimo Primary SchoolB+39%69%
Henwick Primary SchoolB+33%69%
Greenslade Primary SchoolB+15%69%
Timbercroft Primary SchoolB+27%69%
Brooklands Primary SchoolB+18%69%
Bishop John Robinson Church of England Primary SchoolB+18%68%
Morden Mount Primary SchoolB36%67%
De Lucy Primary SchoolB58%67%
Mulgrave Primary SchoolB34%67%
Alexander McLeod Primary SchoolB38%66%
Eglinton Primary SchoolB43%66%
Millennium Primary SchoolB22%66%
James Wolfe Primary School and Centre for the DeafB30%65%
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolB−55%64%
St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolB−45%64%
Montbelle Primary SchoolB−29%63%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolB−46%63%
Windrush Thamesmead Primary SchoolB−52%63%
Woodhill Primary SchoolB−64%63%
Invicta Primary SchoolB−28%61%
Wyborne Primary SchoolC+17%60%
Middle Park Primary SchoolC+50%60%
Greenacres Primary School and Language Impairment UnitC+44%59%
Linton Mead Primary SchoolC+46%58%
Charlton Manor Primary SchoolC+25%58%
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolC46%57%
Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through SchoolC46%57%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

180 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
36.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
10%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
48.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
40.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 42%Boys 58%
Its letter

Cherry Orchard Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 87% 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: Standards maintained, November 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Cherry Orchard Primary School

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

Home prices in SE7 7, the school’s postcode sector

Greenwich property prices →
£475,000
median sale, 299 sales in 36 months · Greenwich £460,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SE7 7Greenwich
SE7 7Greenwich

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£650K
Terraced
£690K
Flat
£350K
SE7 7Greenwich

Homes in SE7 7 sell for a little over Greenwich’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

34 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−A−A−B+B+B−A+AB+A−BC+B−A−A+B−ABB+BBA+B+BB−A−C−CA−B−A+B+BAACherry Orchard Primary Scho…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Greenwich, SE7 7DG

Cherry Orchard Primary School: common questions

Is Cherry Orchard Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 87% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 77% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024.

How hard is it to get into Cherry Orchard Primary School?

For September 2026, 17 families put Cherry Orchard Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 21 places were offered in all.

What is Cherry Orchard Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).

How much do houses cost near Cherry Orchard Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE7 7, sold for a median £475,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (299 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; Greenwich’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.