Fern Hill Primary School
Kingston upon Thames, KT2 5PE · Kingston upon Thames local authority
Kingston upon Thames’s School Grade A+ better than 95% of towns in England
What stands out about Fern Hill Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 89% of England’s primary schools
- 78% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16 points above England’s schools
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 95% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (71 of 75)
- Homes in its postcode sector (KT2 5) sold for a median £745,000; Kingston upon Thames’s is £550,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 78%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 89% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Kingston upon Thames avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 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 Fern Hill Primary School?
95% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (9), 2020 (17), 2021 (10), 2022 (17), 2025 (8), 2026 (4). 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. Kingston Educational Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kingston upon Thames council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
95% got their first choice
Kingston upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latchmere School | A | 13% | 81% |
| St Luke's CofE Primary School | A | 12% | 80% |
| Fern Hill Primary School | A | 8% | 78% |
| St Andrew's and St Mark's CofE Junior School | A | 12% | 76% |
| Burlington Junior School | A− | 18% | 75% |
| Christ Church CofE Primary School | A− | 4% | 75% |
| St John's C of E Primary School | A− | 12% | 75% |
| St Paul's CofE Primary School, Kingston Hill | A− | 11% | 75% |
| Coombe Hill Junior School | A− | 15% | 74% |
| Malden Manor Primary and Nursery School | A− | 24% | 73% |
| Alexandra Primary School | A− | 16% | 72% |
| Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School | A− | 15% | 72% |
| Christ Church New Malden CofE Primary School | A− | 11% | 72% |
| Malden Parochial CofE Primary School | A− | 7% | 72% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School | A− | 6% | 72% |
| St Agatha's Catholic Primary School | A− | 15% | 71% |
| Tolworth Junior School | B+ | 17% | 70% |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School | B+ | 8% | 69% |
| Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School | B+ | 13% | 68% |
| Ellingham Primary School | B | 33% | 66% |
| Green Lane Primary and Nursery School | B− | 12% | 63% |
| St Paul's CofE Primary School | B− | 8% | 62% |
| Knollmead Primary School | B− | 30% | 61% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B− | 25% | 61% |
| King Athelstan Primary School | C+ | 32% | 58% |
| Lovelace Primary School | C | 15% | 56% |
| Robin Hood Primary and Nursery School | C | 41% | 55% |
| King's Oak Primary School | C− | 41% | 50% |
| Lime Tree Primary School | C− | 29% | 50% |
| Castle Hill Primary School | C− | 16% | 50% |
| St Mary's CofE (Aided) Primary School | D− | 22% | 37% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025671 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
Fern Hill Primary School’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 Fern Hill Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in KT2 5, the school’s postcode sector
Kingston upon Thames property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in KT2 5 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
20 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Kingston upon Thames, KT2 5PE
Fern Hill Primary School: common questions
Is Fern Hill Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 89% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 78% 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 Fern Hill Primary School?
For September 2026, 75 families put Fern Hill Primary School first and 71 of them were offered a place; 90 places were offered in all.
What is Fern Hill Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (December 2023).
How much do houses cost near Fern Hill Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, KT2 5, sold for a median £745,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (479 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.
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