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St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Voluntary aidedChurch of England

Lewisham, SE13 6NX · Lewisham local authority

Lewisham’s School Grade B+ better than 73% of towns in England

Its letter
57%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
28/29
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
231 pupils
110% of its 210 places
Free school meals
36%
36 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School

  • Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 57% of England’s primary schools
  • Over capacity: 231 pupils for 210 places
  • 36% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 97% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 29)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE13 6) sold for a median £412,350; Lewisham’s is £465,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 65%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 57% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Lewisham avg 65%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St Mary's Lewisham CofE Primary 65%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading67%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)70%
England’s schools 73%
Maths70%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling67%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
55%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
70%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three7%
England’s schools 8% · Lewisham 10% · 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 St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School?

97% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

29
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
97%
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: 2019 (6), 2020 (7), 2021 (5), 2022 (8), 2024 (3), 2025 (3), 2026 (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 school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Lewisham council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Lewisham, September 2026

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

1.57 per place
60% got their first choice
1.52 per place
62% got their first choice
1.42 per place
68% got their first choice
1.40 per place
70% got their first choice
1.38 per place
70% got their first choice
1.38 per place
70% got their first choice
1.37 per place
73% got their first choice
1.35 per place
70% got their first choice
1.32 per place
75% got their first choice
St Mary's Lewisham CofE Primary
0.97 per place
97% got their first choice

Lewisham and Lewisham, side by side

2023–2025

All 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.

35%45%55%65%75%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St Mary's Lewisham CofE
ABCDElsewhere in LewishamSt Mary's Lewisham CofE Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Haberdashers' Hatcham Free SchoolA+8%90%
Gordonbrock Primary SchoolA+11%84%
Eliot Bank Primary SchoolA+15%84%
Trinity Church of England School, LewishamA30%80%
Turnham AcademyA53%80%
St Margaret's Lee CofE Primary SchoolA19%79%
Stillness Junior SchoolA8%78%
Downderry Primary SchoolA24%77%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School and NurseryA23%77%
Haberdashers' Hatcham PrimaryA40%77%
St Matthew AcademyA−34%75%
St George's CofE Primary SchoolA−41%75%
Fairlawn Primary SchoolA−16%74%
Myatt Garden Primary SchoolA−22%73%
Tidemill AcademyA−45%73%
Beecroft Garden PrimaryA−20%72%
Edmund Waller Primary SchoolA−12%72%
Horniman Primary SchoolA−11%71%
St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary SchoolA−7%71%
Holy Cross Catholic Primary SchoolA−17%71%
St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary SchoolA−39%71%
Brindishe Manor SchoolB+9%70%
Brindishe Lee SchoolB+19%70%
Haberdashers' Knights PrimaryB+35%70%
Adamsrill Primary SchoolB+23%69%
Perrymount Primary SchoolB+34%69%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolB+50%69%
St William of York Catholic Primary SchoolB+24%69%
Dalmain Primary SchoolB+16%68%
John Ball Primary SchoolB+11%68%
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolB+38%68%
Rathfern Primary SchoolB21%67%
Oak Gardens Primary SchoolB45%66%
Kilmorie Primary SchoolB10%66%
Cooper's Lane Primary SchoolB17%65%
All Saints' Church of England Primary School BlackheathB12%65%
St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary SchoolB36%65%
Torridon Primary SchoolB−27%64%
Sandhurst Primary SchoolB−15%63%
Ashmead Primary SchoolB−11%63%
Brindishe Green SchoolB−20%62%
Kender Primary SchoolB−48%62%
Marvels Lane Primary SchoolB−37%62%
St Winifred's RC Primary SchoolB−18%62%
St Saviour's Catholic Primary SchoolB−32%61%
St John Baptist Southend Church of England Primary SchoolC+24%60%
Childeric Primary SchoolC+60%60%
Our Lady and St Philip Neri Catholic Primary SchoolC+31%60%
Haseltine Primary SchoolC+37%59%
John Stainer Community Primary SchoolC+22%59%
Kelvin Grove Primary SchoolC+43%59%
Grinling Gibbons Primary SchoolC+35%58%
Good Shepherd RC SchoolC+31%58%
Forster Park Primary SchoolC41%57%
Prendergast Ladywell SchoolC29%57%
St Stephen's CofE Primary SchoolC36%57%
Launcelot Primary School and NurseryC45%56%
Holbeach Primary SchoolC29%55%
Prendergast Vale SchoolC−43%53%
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolC−49%52%
Deptford Park Primary SchoolC−45%51%
Rushey Green Primary SchoolC−31%49%
Baring Primary SchoolD25%47%
Rangefield Primary SchoolD41%44%
Twin Oaks Primary SchoolD44%42%
Athelney Primary SchoolD−40%38%
Elfrida Primary SchoolD−44%35%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

229 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
20.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
70.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
42.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths BBetter than 57% 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.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, December 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School

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

Home prices in SE13 6, the school’s postcode sector

Lewisham property prices →
£412,350
median sale, 422 sales in 36 months · Lewisham £465,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025SE13 6Lewisham
SE13 6Lewisham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£805K
Terraced
£665K
Flat
£355K
SE13 6Lewisham

Homes in SE13 6 sell for a little under 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

44 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBA−D−DA−B+A+B−CC+B+BBC−B−AB−B+A−B−B+BBAB−B+A−CB+A−BA−A−A−A+B−B+ABAC−CCBSt Mary's Lewisham Church o…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Lewisham, SE13 6NX

St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School: common questions

Is St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 57% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 65% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in April 2026.

How hard is it to get into St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School?

For September 2026, 29 families put St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School first and 28 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St Mary's Lewisham Church of England Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE13 6, sold for a median £412,350 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; 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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