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John Locke Academy

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Hillingdon, UB10 0FW · Hillingdon local authority

Hillingdon’s School Grade A− better than 83% of towns in England

Its letter
66%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
82/97
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
674 pupils
107% of its 630 places
Free school meals
9%
9 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about John Locke Academy

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 66% of England’s primary schools
  • 68% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points above England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 674 pupils for 630 places
  • 9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 85% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (82 of 97)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (UB10 0) sold for a median £475,000; Hillingdon’s is £500,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 68%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 66% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hillingdon avg 65%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%John Locke 68%

Each subject, 2025

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

Reading91%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)81%
England’s schools 73%
Maths83%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling88%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
47%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
84%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three14%
England’s schools 8% · Hillingdon 9% · 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 John Locke Academy?

85% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

97
families put it first for September 2026
87
places offered
85%
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 (52), 2020 (42), 2021 (17), 2022 (22), 2023 (4), 2024 (10), 2025 (16), 2026 (15). 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 Elliot Foundation Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hillingdon council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Hillingdon, September 2026

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

1.50 per place
62% got their first choice
1.28 per place
74% got their first choice
1.20 per place
83% got their first choice
1.19 per place
84% got their first choice
1.14 per place
87% got their first choice
John Locke
1.11 per place
85% got their first choice
1.10 per place
89% got their first choice
1.04 per place
86% got their first choice
1.03 per place
97% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Hillingdon and Hillingdon, side by side

2023–2025

All 56 graded primaries in Hillingdon. 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. Hillingdon’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40%49%58%67%76%85%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →John Locke
ABCDElsewhere in HillingdonJohn Locke
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Whiteheath Junior SchoolA+11%85%
Deanesfield Primary SchoolA+16%83%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA12%81%
Newnham Junior SchoolA9%80%
Rosedale Primary SchoolA20%80%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolA6%79%
The Breakspear SchoolA6%78%
Guru Nanak Sikh AcademyA17%78%
Glebe Primary SchoolA10%77%
Lady Bankes Primary SchoolA18%77%
Heathrow Primary SchoolA20%76%
Bourne Primary SchoolA−19%74%
Lake Farm Park AcademyA−23%74%
Hillingdon Primary SchoolA−22%74%
Warrender Primary SchoolA−9%73%
St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary SchoolA−6%73%
Wood End Park AcademyA−29%73%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolA−22%72%
Dr Triplett's CofE Primary SchoolA−22%71%
St Catherine Catholic Primary SchoolB+20%70%
Hayes Park SchoolB+22%70%
Cranford Park AcademyB+25%70%
Hermitage Primary SchoolB+22%70%
Minet Junior SchoolB+45%69%
West Drayton AcademyB+22%69%
John Locke AcademyB+9%68%
Harlyn Primary SchoolB18%67%
Frithwood Primary SchoolB13%67%
Hillside Junior SchoolB24%66%
St Bernadette Catholic Primary SchoolB8%66%
Charville AcademyB−22%64%
Whitehall SchoolB−36%63%
William Byrd Primary AcademyB−30%63%
Brookside Primary SchoolB−32%62%
Harefield Infant and Junior SchoolB−31%61%
Belmore Primary AcademyC+32%60%
Harmondsworth Primary SchoolC+26%59%
Grange Park SchoolC+19%59%
Cowley St Laurence CofE Primary SchoolC+30%59%
Coteford Junior SchoolC+31%58%
Yeading Junior SchoolC37%57%
Hewens Primary SchoolC29%57%
Field End Junior SchoolC26%57%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolC26%56%
Ruislip Gardens Primary SchoolC26%55%
Bishop Winnington-Ingram CofE Primary SchoolC16%55%
Colham Manor Primary SchoolC31%54%
Highfield Primary SchoolC33%54%
Ryefield Primary SchoolC−20%53%
Rabbsfarm Primary SchoolC−35%52%
St Andrew's C of E Primary SchoolC−37%52%
St Martin's Church of England Primary SchoolC−35%50%
Botwell House Catholic Primary SchoolC−24%48%
Pinkwell Primary SchoolD33%43%
Cherry Lane Primary SchoolD38%42%
Laurel Lane Primary SchoolD49%42%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

674 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
8.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
72.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
8.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

John Locke Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 66% 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
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns), April 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near John Locke Academy

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

Home prices in UB10 0, the school’s postcode sector

Hillingdon property prices →
£475,000
median sale, 307 sales in 36 months · Hillingdon £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025UB10 0Hillingdon
UB10 0Hillingdon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£835K
Semi-detached
£528K
Terraced
£478K
Flat
£316K
UB10 0Hillingdon

Homes in UB10 0 sell for a little under Hillingdon’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

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCB−CAC−C+ABAA−C+A−C−C−B+BBB+John Locke Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hillingdon, UB10 0FW

John Locke Academy: common questions

Is John Locke Academy a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 66% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 68% 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 John Locke Academy?

For September 2026, 97 families put John Locke Academy first and 82 of them were offered a place; 87 places were offered in all.

What is John Locke Academy’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near John Locke Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, UB10 0, sold for a median £475,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (307 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; Hillingdon’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.