Rathfern Primary School
Lewisham, SE6 4NL · Lewisham local authority
Lewisham’s School Grade B+ better than 73% of towns in England
What stands out about Rathfern Primary School
- Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 63% of England’s primary schools
- 67% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 89% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (56 of 63)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SE6 4) sold for a median £461,000; Lewisham’s is £465,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 67%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 63% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Lewisham avg 65%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 111, maths 110 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 29 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 Rathfern Primary School?
89% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (12), 2020 (6), 2021 (50), 2022 (48), 2023 (39), 2024 (26), 2025 (9), 2026 (7). 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. Lewisham council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Lewisham council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
89% got their first choice
Lewisham and Lewisham, side by side
2023–2025All 67 graded primaries in Lewisham. 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. Lewisham’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haberdashers' Hatcham Free School | A+ | 8% | 90% |
| Gordonbrock Primary School | A+ | 11% | 84% |
| Eliot Bank Primary School | A+ | 15% | 84% |
| Trinity Church of England School, Lewisham | A | 30% | 80% |
| Turnham Academy | A | 53% | 80% |
| St Margaret's Lee CofE Primary School | A | 19% | 79% |
| Stillness Junior School | A | 8% | 78% |
| Downderry Primary School | A | 24% | 77% |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and Nursery | A | 23% | 77% |
| Haberdashers' Hatcham Primary | A | 40% | 77% |
| St Matthew Academy | A− | 34% | 75% |
| St George's CofE Primary School | A− | 41% | 75% |
| Fairlawn Primary School | A− | 16% | 74% |
| Myatt Garden Primary School | A− | 22% | 73% |
| Tidemill Academy | A− | 45% | 73% |
| Beecroft Garden Primary | A− | 20% | 72% |
| Edmund Waller Primary School | A− | 12% | 72% |
| Horniman Primary School | A− | 11% | 71% |
| St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary School | A− | 7% | 71% |
| Holy Cross Catholic Primary School | A− | 17% | 71% |
| St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary School | A− | 39% | 71% |
| Brindishe Manor School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| Brindishe Lee School | B+ | 19% | 70% |
| Haberdashers' Knights Primary | B+ | 35% | 70% |
| Adamsrill Primary School | B+ | 23% | 69% |
| Perrymount Primary School | B+ | 34% | 69% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 50% | 69% |
| St William of York Catholic Primary School | B+ | 24% | 69% |
| Dalmain Primary School | B+ | 16% | 68% |
| John Ball Primary School | B+ | 11% | 68% |
| St Michael's Church of England Primary School | B+ | 38% | 68% |
| Rathfern Primary School | B | 21% | 67% |
| Oak Gardens Primary School | B | 45% | 66% |
| Kilmorie Primary School | B | 10% | 66% |
| Cooper's Lane Primary School | B | 17% | 65% |
| All Saints' Church of England Primary School Blackheath | B | 12% | 65% |
| St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School | B | 36% | 65% |
| Torridon Primary School | B− | 27% | 64% |
| Sandhurst Primary School | B− | 15% | 63% |
| Ashmead Primary School | B− | 11% | 63% |
| Brindishe Green School | B− | 20% | 62% |
| Kender Primary School | B− | 48% | 62% |
| Marvels Lane Primary School | B− | 37% | 62% |
| St Winifred's RC Primary School | B− | 18% | 62% |
| St Saviour's Catholic Primary School | B− | 32% | 61% |
| St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary School | C+ | 24% | 60% |
| Childeric Primary School | C+ | 60% | 60% |
| Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary School | C+ | 31% | 60% |
| Haseltine Primary School | C+ | 37% | 59% |
| John Stainer Community Primary School | C+ | 22% | 59% |
| Kelvin Grove Primary School | C+ | 43% | 59% |
| Grinling Gibbons Primary School | C+ | 35% | 58% |
| Good Shepherd RC School | C+ | 31% | 58% |
| Forster Park Primary School | C | 41% | 57% |
| Prendergast Ladywell School | C | 29% | 57% |
| St Stephen's CofE Primary School | C | 36% | 57% |
| Launcelot Primary School and Nursery | C | 45% | 56% |
| Holbeach Primary School | C | 29% | 55% |
| Prendergast Vale School | C− | 43% | 53% |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | C− | 49% | 52% |
| Deptford Park Primary School | C− | 45% | 51% |
| Rushey Green Primary School | C− | 31% | 49% |
| Baring Primary School | D | 25% | 47% |
| Rangefield Primary School | D | 41% | 44% |
| Twin Oaks Primary School | D | 44% | 42% |
| Athelney Primary School | D− | 40% | 38% |
| Elfrida Primary School | D− | 44% | 35% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025497 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
Rathfern 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.
Report card, inspection starting January 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, September 2021.
Living near Rathfern Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SE6 4, the school’s postcode sector
Lewisham property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SE6 4 sell for about the same as Lewisham’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
40 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Lewisham, SE6 4NL
Rathfern Primary School: common questions
Is Rathfern Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 63% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 67% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in January 2026.
How hard is it to get into Rathfern Primary School?
For September 2026, 63 families put Rathfern Primary School first and 56 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.
What is Rathfern Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (January 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 Rathfern Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SE6 4, sold for a median £461,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (430 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; Lewisham’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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