Poplar Primary School
Merton, SW19 3JZ · Merton local authority
Merton’s School Grade A better than 89% of towns in England
What stands out about Poplar Primary School
- Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 66% of England’s primary schools
- 68% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (45 of 50)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SW19 3) sold for a median £810,000; Merton’s is £542,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 68%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 66% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Merton avg 68%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 28 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 Poplar Primary School?
90% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (6), 2020 (25), 2021 (14), 2022 (17), 2023 (1), 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. Merton council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Merton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
90% got their first choice
Merton and Merton, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict Academy | A+ | 65% | 92% |
| Park Academy | A+ | 31% | 87% |
| Merton Park Primary School | A+ | 9% | 86% |
| Aragon Primary School | A+ | 22% | 84% |
| Bishop Gilpin CofE Primary School | A | 6% | 82% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | A | 9% | 81% |
| Wimbledon Park Primary School | A | 7% | 80% |
| Hollymount School | A | 13% | 79% |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | A | 17% | 78% |
| Wimbledon Chase Primary School | A | 8% | 76% |
| All Saints' CofE Primary School | A | 40% | 76% |
| St Mark's Primary School | A− | 45% | 75% |
| Dundonald Primary School | A− | 6% | 74% |
| Singlegate Primary School | A− | 23% | 74% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | A− | 18% | 73% |
| St Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School | A− | 25% | 72% |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School | A− | 10% | 71% |
| Garfield Primary School | B+ | 25% | 70% |
| Harris Primary Academy Merton | B+ | 35% | 69% |
| Pelham Primary School | B+ | 15% | 68% |
| Poplar Primary School | B+ | 19% | 68% |
| The Priory CofE School | B+ | 28% | 68% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | B | 9% | 67% |
| William Morris Primary School | B | 42% | 65% |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | B | 33% | 65% |
| St John Fisher RC Primary School | B | 10% | 65% |
| Malmesbury Primary School | B− | 42% | 64% |
| Lonesome Primary School | B− | 57% | 63% |
| Merton Abbey Primary School | B− | 53% | 63% |
| West Wimbledon Primary School | B− | 33% | 62% |
| Beecholme Primary School | B− | 43% | 62% |
| Gorringe Park Primary School | B− | 33% | 61% |
| Joseph Hood Primary School | C+ | 22% | 60% |
| Hillcross Primary School | C+ | 14% | 60% |
| Liberty Primary | C+ | 38% | 60% |
| Cranmer Primary School | C+ | 41% | 59% |
| Hatfeild Primary School | C | 20% | 56% |
| Morden Primary School | C | 45% | 56% |
| Haslemere Primary School | C | 44% | 54% |
| The Sherwood School | C− | 37% | 52% |
| Abbotsbury Primary School | C− | 39% | 52% |
| Links Primary School | C− | 41% | 50% |
| Bond Primary School | D | 38% | 44% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025626 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
Poplar 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.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, November 2024.
Living near Poplar Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SW19 3, the school’s postcode sector
Merton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SW19 3 sell for well over 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
38 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Merton, SW19 3JZ
Poplar Primary School: common questions
Is Poplar Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 66% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 68% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024.
How hard is it to get into Poplar Primary School?
For September 2026, 50 families put Poplar Primary School first and 45 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.
What is Poplar Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).
How much do houses cost near Poplar Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SW19 3, sold for a median £810,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (395 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.
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