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Knollmead Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Kingston upon Thames, KT5 9QP · Kingston upon Thames local authority

Kingston upon Thames’s School Grade A+ better than 95% of towns in England

Its letter
45%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
29/34
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
248 pupils
105% of its 236 places
Free school meals
30%
30 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Knollmead Primary School

  • Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 45% of England’s primary schools
  • Over capacity: 248 pupils for 236 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 85% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (29 of 34)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (KT5 9) sold for a median £650,000; Kingston upon Thames’s is £550,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 61%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 45% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Kingston upon Thames avg 67%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Knollmead Primary 61%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading61%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)61%
England’s schools 73%
Maths61%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling48%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
30%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
62%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three16%
England’s schools 8% · Kingston upon Thames 12% · 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 Knollmead Primary School?

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

34
families put it first for September 2026
30
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: 2020 (7), 2021 (5), 2022 (4), 2023 (1), 2026 (5). 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. Helix Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kingston upon Thames council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Kingston upon Thames, September 2026

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

1.72 per place
58% got their first choice
1.30 per place
72% got their first choice
1.27 per place
68% got their first choice
1.17 per place
83% got their first choice
1.13 per place
88% got their first choice
Knollmead Primary
1.13 per place
85% got their first choice
1.13 per place
85% got their first choice
1.05 per place
90% got their first choice
0.99 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
92% got their first choice

Kingston upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames, side by side

2023–2025

All 31 graded primaries in Kingston upon Thames. 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. Kingston upon Thames’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%44%53%62%71%80%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Knollmead
ABCDElsewhere in Kingston upon ThamesKnollmead Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Latchmere SchoolA13%81%
St Luke's CofE Primary SchoolA12%80%
Fern Hill Primary SchoolA8%78%
St Andrew's and St Mark's CofE Junior SchoolA12%76%
Burlington Junior SchoolA−18%75%
Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolA−4%75%
St John's C of E Primary SchoolA−12%75%
St Paul's CofE Primary School, Kingston HillA−11%75%
Coombe Hill Junior SchoolA−15%74%
Malden Manor Primary and Nursery SchoolA−24%73%
Alexandra Primary SchoolA−16%72%
Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery SchoolA−15%72%
Christ Church New Malden CofE Primary SchoolA−11%72%
Malden Parochial CofE Primary SchoolA−7%72%
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary SchoolA−6%72%
St Agatha's Catholic Primary SchoolA−15%71%
Tolworth Junior SchoolB+17%70%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolB+8%69%
Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary SchoolB+13%68%
Ellingham Primary SchoolB33%66%
Green Lane Primary and Nursery SchoolB−12%63%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolB−8%62%
Knollmead Primary SchoolB−30%61%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolB−25%61%
King Athelstan Primary SchoolC+32%58%
Lovelace Primary SchoolC15%56%
Robin Hood Primary and Nursery SchoolC41%55%
King's Oak Primary SchoolC−41%50%
Lime Tree Primary SchoolC−29%50%
Castle Hill Primary SchoolC−16%50%
St Mary's CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolD−22%37%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

239 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
20.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
12.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
40.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
29.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

Knollmead Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B−Better than 45% 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.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), February 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Knollmead Primary School

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

Home prices in KT5 9, the school’s postcode sector

Kingston upon Thames property prices →
£650,000
median sale, 310 sales in 36 months · Kingston upon Thames £550,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025KT5 9Kingston upon Thames
KT5 9Kingston upon Thames

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£725K
Semi-detached
£715K
Terraced
£484K
Flat
£255K
KT5 9Kingston upon Thames

Homes in KT5 9 sell for well over Kingston upon Thames’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

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+A−A−A−A−B−B+DA−AC−C−BAC−C−A+B−A−CB+B−Knollmead Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Kingston upon Thames, KT5 9QP

Knollmead Primary School: common questions

Is Knollmead Primary School a good school?

By its published results, about average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 45% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 61% 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 Knollmead Primary School?

For September 2026, 34 families put Knollmead Primary School first and 29 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is Knollmead Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).

How much do houses cost near Knollmead Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, KT5 9, sold for a median £650,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (310 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; Kingston upon Thames’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.