West Drayton Academy
Hillingdon, UB7 9EA · Hillingdon local authority
Hillingdon’s School Grade A− better than 83% of towns in England
What stands out about West Drayton Academy
- Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 69% of England’s primary schools
- 69% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (76 of 76)
- Homes in its postcode sector (UB7 9) sold for a median £390,000; Hillingdon’s is £500,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 69%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 69% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hillingdon avg 65%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 108 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 23 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 West Drayton Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (23), 2020 (16), 2021 (8), 2022 (8), 2023 (3), 2024 (1). 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 Park Federation Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hillingdon 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
Hillingdon and Hillingdon, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteheath Junior School | A+ | 11% | 85% |
| Deanesfield Primary School | A+ | 16% | 83% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | A | 12% | 81% |
| Newnham Junior School | A | 9% | 80% |
| Rosedale Primary School | A | 20% | 80% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | A | 6% | 79% |
| The Breakspear School | A | 6% | 78% |
| Guru Nanak Sikh Academy | A | 17% | 78% |
| Glebe Primary School | A | 10% | 77% |
| Lady Bankes Primary School | A | 18% | 77% |
| Heathrow Primary School | A | 20% | 76% |
| Bourne Primary School | A− | 19% | 74% |
| Lake Farm Park Academy | A− | 23% | 74% |
| Hillingdon Primary School | A− | 22% | 74% |
| Warrender Primary School | A− | 9% | 73% |
| St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School | A− | 6% | 73% |
| Wood End Park Academy | A− | 29% | 73% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | A− | 22% | 72% |
| Dr Triplett's CofE Primary School | A− | 22% | 71% |
| St Catherine Catholic Primary School | B+ | 20% | 70% |
| Hayes Park School | B+ | 22% | 70% |
| Cranford Park Academy | B+ | 25% | 70% |
| Hermitage Primary School | B+ | 22% | 70% |
| Minet Junior School | B+ | 45% | 69% |
| West Drayton Academy | B+ | 22% | 69% |
| John Locke Academy | B+ | 9% | 68% |
| Harlyn Primary School | B | 18% | 67% |
| Frithwood Primary School | B | 13% | 67% |
| Hillside Junior School | B | 24% | 66% |
| St Bernadette Catholic Primary School | B | 8% | 66% |
| Charville Academy | B− | 22% | 64% |
| Whitehall School | B− | 36% | 63% |
| William Byrd Primary Academy | B− | 30% | 63% |
| Brookside Primary School | B− | 32% | 62% |
| Harefield Infant and Junior School | B− | 31% | 61% |
| Belmore Primary Academy | C+ | 32% | 60% |
| Harmondsworth Primary School | C+ | 26% | 59% |
| Grange Park School | C+ | 19% | 59% |
| Cowley St Laurence CofE Primary School | C+ | 30% | 59% |
| Coteford Junior School | C+ | 31% | 58% |
| Yeading Junior School | C | 37% | 57% |
| Hewens Primary School | C | 29% | 57% |
| Field End Junior School | C | 26% | 57% |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School | C | 26% | 56% |
| Ruislip Gardens Primary School | C | 26% | 55% |
| Bishop Winnington-Ingram CofE Primary School | C | 16% | 55% |
| Colham Manor Primary School | C | 31% | 54% |
| Highfield Primary School | C | 33% | 54% |
| Ryefield Primary School | C− | 20% | 53% |
| Rabbsfarm Primary School | C− | 35% | 52% |
| St Andrew's C of E Primary School | C− | 37% | 52% |
| St Martin's Church of England Primary School | C− | 35% | 50% |
| Botwell House Catholic Primary School | C− | 24% | 48% |
| Pinkwell Primary School | D | 33% | 43% |
| Cherry Lane Primary School | D | 38% | 42% |
| Laurel Lane Primary School | D | 49% | 42% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025662 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
West Drayton Academy’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.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, February 2025.
Living near West Drayton Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in UB7 9, the school’s postcode sector
Hillingdon property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in UB7 9 sell for well 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
14 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Hillingdon, UB7 9EA
West Drayton Academy: common questions
Is West Drayton Academy a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 69% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 69% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025.
How hard is it to get into West Drayton Academy?
For September 2026, 76 families put West Drayton Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 80 places were offered in all.
What is West Drayton Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).
How much do houses cost near West Drayton Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, UB7 9, sold for a median £390,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (260 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.
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