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St James Church of England Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Voluntary aidedChurch of England

Haringey, N10 3JA · Haringey local authority

Haringey’s School Grade A− better than 84% of towns in England

Its letter
97%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
20/20
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
189 pupils
80% of its 236 places
Free school meals
10%
10 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St James Church of England Primary School

  • Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 97% of England’s primary schools
  • 86% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24 points above England’s schools
  • 10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (20 of 20)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (N10 3) sold for a median £800,000; Haringey’s is £570,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 86%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 97% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Haringey avg 70%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St James CofE Primary 86%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading90%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)94%
England’s schools 73%
Maths90%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling90%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three23%
England’s schools 8% · Haringey 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 St James Church of England Primary School?

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

20
families put it first for September 2026
30
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 (2), 2020 (1), 2023 (5), 2024 (9). 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 school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Haringey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Haringey, September 2026

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

1.70 per place
58% got their first choice
1.67 per place
52% got their first choice
1.44 per place
60% got their first choice
1.29 per place
75% got their first choice
1.27 per place
72% got their first choice
1.26 per place
80% got their first choice
1.23 per place
73% got their first choice
1.23 per place
71% got their first choice
1.18 per place
73% got their first choice
St James CofE Primary
0.67 per place
100% got their first choice

Haringey and Haringey, side by side

2023–2025

All 50 graded primaries in Haringey. 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. Haringey’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40%50%60%70%80%90%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St James CofE
ABCDElsewhere in HaringeySt James CofE Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Lift TrinityA+24%95%
Rhodes Avenue Primary SchoolA+4%92%
Lift Noel ParkA+31%90%
St James Church of England Primary SchoolA+10%86%
Muswell Hill Primary SchoolA+12%84%
Harris Academy TottenhamA37%81%
South Harringay Junior SchoolA19%80%
St Michael's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolA5%80%
St Michael's CofE Primary SchoolA38%80%
Campsbourne Junior SchoolA18%79%
Coldfall Primary SchoolA12%79%
Highgate Primary SchoolA12%78%
Our Lady of Muswell Catholic Primary SchoolA18%78%
St Martin of Porres Catholic Primary SchoolA25%78%
St John Vianney RC Primary SchoolA29%78%
Stroud Green Primary SchoolA23%78%
Eden PrimaryA2%77%
Harris Primary Academy Philip LaneA29%77%
Tetherdown Primary SchoolA4%76%
Harris Primary Academy Coleraine ParkA41%76%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolA−41%74%
Brook House Primary SchoolA−45%74%
The Devonshire Hill Nursery & Primary SchoolA−49%72%
St Paul's Catholic Primary SchoolA−22%72%
Earlham Primary SchoolA−27%72%
Rokesly Junior SchoolA−25%71%
Coleridge Primary SchoolA−11%71%
Weston Park Primary SchoolA−14%71%
Chestnuts Primary SchoolA−18%71%
North Harringay Primary SchoolB+25%70%
West Green Primary SchoolB+33%68%
Welbourne Primary SchoolB+58%68%
St Aidan's Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolB17%67%
St Paul's and All Hallows CofE Junior SchoolB29%66%
Belmont Junior SchoolB−14%64%
Earlsmead Primary SchoolB−46%62%
Bruce Grove Primary SchoolB−38%61%
South Grove Primary SchoolB−48%61%
Bounds Green Junior SchoolC+21%60%
The Willow Primary SchoolC+36%59%
Lancasterian Primary SchoolC39%57%
Ferry Lane Primary SchoolC29%57%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolC42%57%
Risley Avenue Primary SchoolC40%57%
The Mulberry Primary SchoolC39%54%
Lea Valley Primary SchoolC−39%50%
Alexandra Primary SchoolC−39%50%
St Ann's CE Primary SchoolC−44%49%
Crowland Primary SchoolC−24%48%
Lordship Lane Primary SchoolD33%41%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

190 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
12.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
28.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
7.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

St James Church of England Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths A+Better than 97% 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.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St James Church of England Primary School

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

Home prices in N10 3, the school’s postcode sector

Haringey property prices →
£800,000
median sale, 323 sales in 36 months · Haringey £570,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£400K£600K£800K£1M2010201520202025N10 3Haringey
N10 3Haringey

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.6M
Semi-detached
£1.6M
Terraced
£1.7M
Flat
£577K
N10 3Haringey

Homes in N10 3 sell for well over Haringey’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

35 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−B+C+A+C−BC−A−AAAAA−A−A+ACABA−AC−A+C+A−AAAB+C+B−B−B+A+St James Church of England …
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Haringey, N10 3JA

St James Church of England Primary School: common questions

Is St James Church of England Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 97% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 86% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in June 2026.

How hard is it to get into St James Church of England Primary School?

For September 2026, 20 families put St James Church of England Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is St James Church of England Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St James Church of England Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, N10 3, sold for a median £800,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (323 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; Haringey’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.