The Orchard School
Lambeth, SW2 3NE · Lambeth local authority
Lambeth’s School Grade B+ better than 73% of towns in England
What stands out about The Orchard 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
- 35% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
- 82% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (23 of 28)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SW2 3) sold for a median £486,500; Lambeth’s is £545,000
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 · Lambeth avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 112 (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 The Orchard School?
82% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (7), 2020 (18), 2021 (15), 2022 (4), 2023 (14), 2024 (9), 2025 (5), 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. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Lambeth council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
82% got their first choice
Lambeth and Lambeth, side by side
2023–2025All 59 graded primaries in Lambeth. 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. Lambeth’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iqra Primary School | A+ | 38% | 95% |
| St Andrew's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 18% | 93% |
| Stockwell Primary School | A+ | 45% | 92% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School | A+ | 18% | 86% |
| Jessop Primary School | A+ | 32% | 85% |
| Christ Church, Streatham Church of England Primary School | A+ | 51% | 84% |
| Streatham Wells Primary | A+ | 24% | 84% |
| St Helen's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 47% | 83% |
| Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School | A | 17% | 80% |
| Herbert Morrison Primary School | A | 37% | 79% |
| Bonneville Primary School | A | 37% | 79% |
| Granton Primary School | A | 56% | 78% |
| The Orchard School | A | 35% | 78% |
| Walnut Tree Walk Primary School | A | 24% | 76% |
| Henry Cavendish Primary School | A− | 13% | 75% |
| Rosendale Primary School | A− | 19% | 75% |
| Heathbrook Primary School | A− | 38% | 72% |
| Woodmansterne School | A− | 24% | 72% |
| Dunraven School | A− | 42% | 72% |
| Glenbrook Primary School | A− | 65% | 71% |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | A− | 57% | 71% |
| Clapham Manor Primary School | B+ | 41% | 70% |
| Christ Church Primary SW9 | B+ | 34% | 70% |
| St John's Angell Town Church of England Primary School | B+ | 52% | 69% |
| St Jude's Church of England Primary School | B+ | 24% | 69% |
| Kingswood Primary School | B+ | 47% | 68% |
| Telferscot Primary School | B+ | 10% | 68% |
| St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School | B+ | 38% | 68% |
| Oasis Academy South Bank Primary | B+ | 46% | 68% |
| Allen Edwards Primary School | B | 50% | 67% |
| Archbishop Sumner Church of England Primary School | B | 47% | 67% |
| Reay Primary School | B | 52% | 67% |
| Ashmole Primary School | B | 26% | 65% |
| Julian's School | B | 19% | 65% |
| St Andrew's Church of England Primary School | B | 51% | 65% |
| Hitherfield Primary School | B− | 21% | 64% |
| Macaulay Church of England Primary School | B− | 36% | 63% |
| Elm Wood School | B− | 29% | 62% |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary School | B− | 52% | 62% |
| Larkhall Primary Campus | B− | 62% | 61% |
| Sudbourne Primary School | B− | 37% | 61% |
| St John the Divine Church of England Primary School | B− | 46% | 61% |
| Paxton Primary School | C+ | 15% | 60% |
| St Stephen's Church of England Primary School | C+ | 60% | 60% |
| Jubilee Primary School | C+ | 53% | 60% |
| Sunnyhill Primary School | C | 56% | 56% |
| Vauxhall Primary School | C | 53% | 56% |
| Crown Lane Primary School | C | 37% | 54% |
| Henry Fawcett Primary School | C | 61% | 54% |
| Van Gogh Primary | C | 65% | 54% |
| St Saviour's Church of England Primary School | C− | 33% | 52% |
| St Leonard's Church of England Primary School | C− | 22% | 52% |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | C− | 40% | 51% |
| Loughborough Primary School | C− | 57% | 49% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | C− | 54% | 48% |
| Fenstanton Primary School | D | 57% | 47% |
| Hill Mead Primary School | D | 57% | 43% |
| Richard Atkins Primary School | D | 42% | 41% |
| Wyvil Primary School and Resource Bases for Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and Autism | D− | 49% | 38% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025206 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
The Orchard 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.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, January 2025.
Living near The Orchard School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SW2 3, the school’s postcode sector
Lambeth property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SW2 3 sell for a little under Lambeth’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
45 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Lambeth, SW2 3NE
The Orchard School: common questions
Is The Orchard 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: Inspected, January 2025.
How hard is it to get into The Orchard School?
For September 2026, 28 families put The Orchard School first and 23 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.
What is The Orchard School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).
How much do houses cost near The Orchard School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SW2 3, sold for a median £486,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (422 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; Lambeth’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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