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Deer Park School

PrimaryAges 4–11Free school

Richmond upon Thames, TW1 2EF · Richmond upon Thames local authority

Richmond upon Thames’s School Grade A+ better than 98% of towns in England

Its letter
99%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
60/128
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
417 pupils
99% of its 420 places
Free school meals
6%
6 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Deer Park School

  • Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 99% of England’s primary schools
  • 93% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 31 points above England’s schools
  • 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, May 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 47% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 128)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TW1 2) sold for a median £745,000; Richmond upon Thames’s is £715,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 93%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 99% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Richmond upon Thames avg 76%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Deer Park 93%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 114, maths 113 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading100%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)97%
England’s schools 73%
Maths100%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling97%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three33%
England’s schools 8% · Richmond upon Thames 21% · 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 Deer Park School?

47% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

128
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
47%
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 (5), 2020 (1), 2021 (3), 2022 (9), 2023 (34), 2024 (59), 2025 (52), 2026 (68). 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. Bellevue Place Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Richmond upon Thames council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Richmond upon Thames, September 2026

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

Deer Park
2.13 per place
47% got their first choice
1.78 per place
56% got their first choice
1.60 per place
63% got their first choice
1.21 per place
82% got their first choice
1.17 per place
85% got their first choice
1.13 per place
86% got their first choice
1.13 per place
79% got their first choice
1.10 per place
85% got their first choice
1.07 per place
81% got their first choice
1.03 per place
90% got their first choice

Richmond upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames, side by side

2023–2025

All 40 graded primaries in Richmond upon Thames. 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. Richmond upon Thames’s schools are coloured by their letter.

45%55%65%75%85%95%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Deer Park
ABCDElsewhere in Richmond upon ThamesDeer Park
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Barnes Primary SchoolA+2%94%
Deer Park SchoolA+6%93%
St Richard Reynolds Catholic Primary SchoolA+6%91%
Marshgate Primary SchoolA+9%87%
Meadlands Primary SchoolA+15%86%
St James's Catholic Primary SchoolA+3%86%
St Mary's and St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolA+7%85%
Thomson House SchoolA+10%85%
The King's Church of England Primary SchoolA+9%84%
Collis Primary SchoolA+8%83%
Sheen Mount Primary SchoolA3%82%
Chase Bridge Primary SchoolA13%82%
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolA4%82%
East Sheen Primary SchoolA18%81%
St Stephen's C E Primary SchoolA7%81%
Archdeacon Cambridge's Church of England Primary SchoolA4%81%
Lowther Primary SchoolA26%80%
The Vineyard SchoolA5%80%
St Edmund's Catholic Primary SchoolA7%78%
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary SchoolA4%78%
St Osmund's Catholic Primary SchoolA6%78%
Hampton Junior SchoolA13%77%
The Russell Primary SchoolA17%76%
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary SchoolA23%76%
Orleans Primary SchoolA−7%74%
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolA−13%74%
Bishop Perrin Church of England Primary SchoolA−12%74%
Hampton Hill Junior SchoolA−17%72%
Trafalgar Junior SchoolA−20%72%
Kew Riverside Primary SchoolA−38%71%
St Mary's Hampton Church of England PrimaryB+21%68%
Heathfield Junior SchoolB40%67%
St John the Baptist Church of England Junior SchoolB15%67%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolB20%67%
Stanley Primary SchoolB34%66%
Twickenham Primary AcademyB−15%64%
St Richard's Church of England Primary SchoolB−44%63%
Buckingham Primary SchoolC41%56%
Nelson Primary SchoolC−22%52%
Darell Primary and Nursery SchoolC−32%49%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

389 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
6.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
46.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
5.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

Deer Park School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths A+Better than 99% 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 Outstanding, May 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Deer Park School

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

Home prices in TW1 2, the school’s postcode sector

Richmond upon Thames property prices →
£745,000
median sale, 280 sales in 36 months · Richmond upon Thames £715,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K£900K2010201520202025TW1 2Richmond upon Thames
TW1 2Richmond upon Thames

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.9M
Semi-detached
£1.8M
Terraced
£1.2M
Flat
£572K
TW1 2Richmond upon Thames

Homes in TW1 2 sell for a little over Richmond upon Thames’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

27 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBB+C+B+AAC−A+A−AAAAB−A−AAAA+AA+AB−A−A+A+AA+Deer Park School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Richmond upon Thames, TW1 2EF

Deer Park School: common questions

Is Deer Park School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 99% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 93% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, May 2024.

How hard is it to get into Deer Park School?

For September 2026, 128 families put Deer Park School first and 60 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Deer Park School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (May 2024).

How much do houses cost near Deer Park School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TW1 2, sold for a median £745,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (280 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; Richmond upon Thames’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.