Priestmead Primary School and Nursery
Harrow, HA3 8SZ · Harrow local authority
Harrow’s School Grade A better than 91% of towns in England
What stands out about Priestmead Primary School and Nursery
- 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
- 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 86% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (106 of 123)
- Homes in its postcode sector (HA3 8) sold for a median £605,000; Harrow’s is £550,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, 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 · Harrow avg 71%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 17 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 Priestmead Primary School and Nursery?
86% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (23), 2020 (47), 2021 (30), 2022 (24), 2023 (7), 2024 (7), 2025 (38), 2026 (17). 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 Pegasus Partnership Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Harrow council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
86% got their first choice
Harrow and Harrow, side by side
2023–2025All 39 graded primaries in Harrow. 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. Harrow’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krishna Avanti Primary School | A+ | 3% | 89% |
| Avanti House Primary School | A+ | 1% | 86% |
| Newton Farm Nursery, Infant and Junior School | A+ | 6% | 85% |
| Stanburn Primary School | A+ | 16% | 85% |
| Grimsdyke School | A+ | 7% | 84% |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | A+ | 6% | 84% |
| Cannon Lane Primary School | A+ | 4% | 83% |
| St Anselm's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 8% | 83% |
| Vaughan Primary School | A | 18% | 82% |
| St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | A | 9% | 82% |
| Roxbourne Primary School | A | 16% | 78% |
| Pinner Wood School | A | 10% | 78% |
| St George's Primary Catholic Voluntary Academy | A | 5% | 78% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | A | 13% | 78% |
| Saint Jerome Church of England Bilingual School | A | 16% | 77% |
| Priestmead Primary School and Nursery | A | 11% | 77% |
| West Lodge Primary School | A | 7% | 76% |
| Pinner Park Primary School | A− | 13% | 74% |
| Whitchurch Primary School & Nursery | A− | 17% | 74% |
| Aylward Primary School | A− | 28% | 71% |
| Camrose Primary With Nursery | B+ | 23% | 70% |
| Stag Lane Primary School | B+ | 12% | 70% |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School and Nursery | B+ | 19% | 69% |
| Heathland School | B+ | 21% | 69% |
| Longfield Primary School | B+ | 15% | 68% |
| Marlborough Primary School | B | 17% | 66% |
| St John's CofE School | B | 30% | 66% |
| Roxeth Primary School | B− | 22% | 62% |
| Glebe Primary School | B− | 9% | 62% |
| Grange Primary School | B− | 34% | 61% |
| Elmgrove Primary School & Nursery | C+ | 17% | 59% |
| Kenmore Park Junior School | C+ | 35% | 58% |
| Weald Rise Primary School | C+ | 28% | 58% |
| Earlsmead Primary School | C+ | 31% | 58% |
| Belmont School | C | 27% | 57% |
| Norbury School | C | 17% | 57% |
| Cedars Manor School | C | 41% | 54% |
| The Welldon Park Academy | C− | 20% | 53% |
| Whitefriars School | D− | 32% | 38% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025880 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
Priestmead Primary School and Nursery’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: Outstanding, December 2023.
Living near Priestmead Primary School and Nursery
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in HA3 8, the school’s postcode sector
Harrow property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in HA3 8 sell for a little over Harrow’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
29 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Harrow, HA3 8SZ
Priestmead Primary School and Nursery: common questions
Is Priestmead Primary School and Nursery 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: Outstanding, December 2023.
How hard is it to get into Priestmead Primary School and Nursery?
For September 2026, 123 families put Priestmead Primary School and Nursery first and 106 of them were offered a place; 118 places were offered in all.
What is Priestmead Primary School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (December 2023).
How much do houses cost near Priestmead Primary School and Nursery?
Homes in its postcode sector, HA3 8, sold for a median £605,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (174 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; Harrow’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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