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Morden Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Merton, SM4 5PX · Merton local authority

Merton’s School Grade A better than 89% of towns in England

Its letter
31%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
28/28
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
222 pupils
84% of its 265 places
Free school meals
45%
45 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Morden Primary School

  • Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 31% of England’s primary schools
  • 56% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points below England’s schools
  • 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, April 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 28)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SM4 5) sold for a median £461,250; Merton’s is £542,500

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 56%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 31% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Merton avg 68%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Morden Primary 56%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading85%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)65%
England’s schools 73%
Maths77%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling73%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 13 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
54%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
77%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three8%
England’s schools 8% · Merton 11% · 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 Morden Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

28
families put it first for September 2026
29
places offered
100%
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 (9), 2022 (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. Merton council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Merton council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Merton, September 2026

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

2.47 per place
39% got their first choice
1.92 per place
52% got their first choice
1.53 per place
62% got their first choice
1.49 per place
66% got their first choice
1.28 per place
78% got their first choice
1.27 per place
75% got their first choice
1.20 per place
78% got their first choice
1.10 per place
85% got their first choice
1.07 per place
77% got their first choice
Morden Primary
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice

Merton and Merton, side by side

2023–2025

All 43 graded primaries in Merton. 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. Merton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40%50%60%70%80%90%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Morden
ABCDElsewhere in MertonMorden Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Benedict AcademyA+65%92%
Park AcademyA+31%87%
Merton Park Primary SchoolA+9%86%
Aragon Primary SchoolA+22%84%
Bishop Gilpin CofE Primary SchoolA6%82%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA9%81%
Wimbledon Park Primary SchoolA7%80%
Hollymount SchoolA13%79%
St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolA17%78%
Wimbledon Chase Primary SchoolA8%76%
All Saints' CofE Primary SchoolA40%76%
St Mark's Primary SchoolA−45%75%
Dundonald Primary SchoolA−6%74%
Singlegate Primary SchoolA−23%74%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolA−18%73%
St Peter and Paul Catholic Primary SchoolA−25%72%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolA−10%71%
Garfield Primary SchoolB+25%70%
Harris Primary Academy MertonB+35%69%
Pelham Primary SchoolB+15%68%
Poplar Primary SchoolB+19%68%
The Priory CofE SchoolB+28%68%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolB9%67%
William Morris Primary SchoolB42%65%
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary SchoolB33%65%
St John Fisher RC Primary SchoolB10%65%
Malmesbury Primary SchoolB−42%64%
Lonesome Primary SchoolB−57%63%
Merton Abbey Primary SchoolB−53%63%
West Wimbledon Primary SchoolB−33%62%
Beecholme Primary SchoolB−43%62%
Gorringe Park Primary SchoolB−33%61%
Joseph Hood Primary SchoolC+22%60%
Hillcross Primary SchoolC+14%60%
Liberty PrimaryC+38%60%
Cranmer Primary SchoolC+41%59%
Hatfeild Primary SchoolC20%56%
Morden Primary SchoolC45%56%
Haslemere Primary SchoolC44%54%
The Sherwood SchoolC−37%52%
Abbotsbury Primary SchoolC−39%52%
Links Primary SchoolC−41%50%
Bond Primary SchoolD38%44%

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
19.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
38%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
44.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

Morden Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths CBetter than 31% 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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, April 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Morden Primary School

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

Home prices in SM4 5, the school’s postcode sector

Merton property prices →
£461,250
median sale, 208 sales in 36 months · Merton £542,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025SM4 5Merton
SM4 5Merton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£550K
Terraced
£528K
Flat
£287K
SM4 5Merton

Homes in SM4 5 sell for a little under Merton’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

30 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCC+B−A+CB+C−C+AAAB+A−B−A+AAB+AA+C−DAA+AB−B+A+BACMorden Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Merton, SM4 5PX

Morden Primary School: common questions

Is Morden Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 31% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 56% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, April 2024.

How hard is it to get into Morden Primary School?

For September 2026, 28 families put Morden Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.

What is Morden Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (April 2024).

How much do houses cost near Morden Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SM4 5, sold for a median £461,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (208 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; Merton’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.