Woodberry Down Community Primary School
Hackney, N4 1SY · Hackney local authority
Hackney’s School Grade A better than 95% of towns in England
What stands out about Woodberry Down Community Primary School
- Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 60% of England’s primary schools
- 58% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (54 of 54)
- Homes in its postcode sector (N4 1) sold for a median £602,500; Hackney’s is £595,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 66%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 60% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hackney avg 74%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 55 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 Woodberry Down Community Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (8), 2020 (14). 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. Hackney council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hackney 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
Hackney and Hackney, side by side
2023–2025All 50 graded primaries in Hackney. 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. Hackney’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Marks Jewish Primary School | A+ | 27% | 93% |
| Southwold Primary School | A+ | 53% | 90% |
| Grazebrook Primary School | A+ | 28% | 88% |
| Hoxton Garden Primary | A+ | 65% | 86% |
| Gayhurst Community School | A+ | 22% | 85% |
| William Patten Primary School | A+ | 16% | 84% |
| The Olive School, Hackney | A+ | 54% | 84% |
| Mossbourne Riverside Academy | A+ | 20% | 84% |
| Hackney New Primary School | A+ | 38% | 84% |
| Kingsmead Primary School | A | 53% | 82% |
| Orchard Primary School | A | 61% | 80% |
| Princess May Primary School | A | 48% | 80% |
| St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary School | A | 59% | 80% |
| Northwold Primary School | A | 53% | 80% |
| St Monica's Catholic Primary School | A | 38% | 80% |
| Mandeville Primary School | A | 54% | 79% |
| Grasmere Primary School | A | 18% | 78% |
| Betty Layward Primary School | A | 17% | 78% |
| Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School | A | 25% | 77% |
| St. Paul's With St. Michael's CofE Primary School | A | 63% | 77% |
| Rushmore Primary School | A | 23% | 77% |
| Lubavitch Girls Primary School | A | 12% | 77% |
| Mossbourne Parkside Academy | A | 60% | 76% |
| Jubilee Primary School | A− | 34% | 75% |
| Harrington Hill Primary School | A− | 55% | 74% |
| St John and St James CofE Primary School | A− | 41% | 74% |
| Queensbridge Primary School | A− | 46% | 73% |
| Sebright School | A− | 44% | 73% |
| Daubeney Primary School | A− | 50% | 72% |
| Thomas Fairchild Community School | A− | 70% | 72% |
| Lauriston School | A− | 24% | 71% |
| London Fields Primary School | A− | 33% | 71% |
| Morningside Primary School | A− | 62% | 71% |
| Millfields Community School | B+ | 27% | 70% |
| Shacklewell Primary School | B+ | 35% | 70% |
| St Scholastica's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 70% | 70% |
| St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School | B+ | 62% | 69% |
| Benthal Primary School | B+ | 67% | 68% |
| Springfield Community Primary School | B+ | 42% | 68% |
| Berger Primary School | B | 59% | 67% |
| Woodberry Down Community Primary School | B | 58% | 66% |
| St Matthias Church of England Primary School | B | 68% | 65% |
| Shoreditch Park Primary School | B− | 59% | 64% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | B− | 55% | 64% |
| Halley House School | B− | 44% | 63% |
| Holmleigh Primary School | B− | 49% | 62% |
| Nightingale Primary School | B− | 58% | 61% |
| Gainsborough Primary School | C+ | 49% | 59% |
| Parkwood Primary School | C+ | 52% | 59% |
| Lubavitch Boys' Primary School | D | 13% | 44% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025691 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
Woodberry Down Community 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.
Graded inspection: Good, December 2023.
Living near Woodberry Down Community Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in N4 1, the school’s postcode sector
Hackney property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in N4 1 sell for about the same as Hackney’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
65 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Hackney, N4 1SY
Woodberry Down Community Primary School: common questions
Is Woodberry Down Community Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 60% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 66% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, December 2023.
How hard is it to get into Woodberry Down Community Primary School?
For September 2026, 54 families put Woodberry Down Community Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 64 places were offered in all.
What is Woodberry Down Community Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).
How much do houses cost near Woodberry Down Community Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, N4 1, sold for a median £602,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (266 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; Hackney’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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