Friars Primary Foundation School
Southwark, SE1 0RF · Southwark local authority
Southwark’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England
What stands out about Friars Primary Foundation 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
- 44% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, February 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (15 of 15)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SE1 0) sold for a median £635,000; Southwark’s is £545,000
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 · Southwark avg 69%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 13 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 Friars Primary Foundation School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (3), 2025 (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 Southwark council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Southwark and Southwark, side by side
2023–2025All 64 graded primaries in Southwark. 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. Southwark’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie | A+ | 20% | 94% |
| Charles Dickens Primary School | A+ | 42% | 92% |
| Boutcher Church of England Primary School | A+ | 34% | 90% |
| St John's Roman Catholic Primary School | A+ | 29% | 85% |
| Riverside Primary School | A+ | 44% | 84% |
| Redriff Primary, City of London Academy | A+ | 22% | 83% |
| Judith Kerr Primary School | A+ | 3% | 83% |
| Crampton Primary | A | 38% | 82% |
| Phoenix Primary School | A | 44% | 82% |
| Angel Oak Academy | A | 47% | 82% |
| Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich | A | 19% | 80% |
| Brunswick Park Primary School | A | 46% | 79% |
| Dulwich Hamlet Junior School | A | 13% | 79% |
| St James the Great Roman Catholic Primary School | A | 43% | 78% |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School | A | 34% | 78% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | A | 26% | 78% |
| Snowsfields Primary School | A | 52% | 76% |
| Ivydale Primary School | A− | 21% | 75% |
| Ilderton Primary School | A− | 41% | 74% |
| Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, the Borough | A− | 51% | 72% |
| Bessemer Grange Primary School | A− | 27% | 72% |
| Heber Primary School | A− | 13% | 71% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Junior School | A− | 51% | 71% |
| Ark Globe Academy | A− | 64% | 71% |
| The Belham Primary School | A− | 14% | 71% |
| Oasis Academy Surrey Square | A− | 59% | 71% |
| John Ruskin Primary School and Language Classes | B+ | 58% | 70% |
| English Martyrs' Roman Catholic Primary School | B+ | 47% | 70% |
| Bellenden Primary School | B+ | 48% | 69% |
| St James' Church of England Primary School | B+ | 73% | 69% |
| St John's and St Clement's Church of England Primary School | B+ | 16% | 69% |
| Harris Primary Academy Peckham Park | B+ | 60% | 69% |
| Galleywall Primary, City of London Academy | B+ | 44% | 69% |
| St George's Cathedral Catholic Primary School | B+ | 36% | 69% |
| Friars Primary Foundation School | B+ | 44% | 68% |
| Albion Primary School | B | 41% | 67% |
| Keyworth Primary School | B | 60% | 66% |
| John Donne Primary School | B | 57% | 66% |
| Lyndhurst Primary School | B | 20% | 66% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B | 28% | 66% |
| Victory Primary School | B | 57% | 65% |
| Rotherhithe Primary School | B | 51% | 65% |
| Southwark Park Primary School | B− | 54% | 64% |
| Pilgrims' Way Primary School | B− | 58% | 64% |
| Alfred Salter Primary School | B− | 27% | 63% |
| St Paul's Church of England Primary School | B− | 54% | 63% |
| Dulwich Wood Primary School | B− | 26% | 61% |
| Grange Primary School | C+ | 56% | 60% |
| Hollydale Primary School | C+ | 37% | 60% |
| Michael Faraday School | C+ | 38% | 60% |
| Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School | C+ | 51% | 60% |
| St Francis RC Primary School | C+ | 44% | 59% |
| Grove Primary School | C+ | 46% | 59% |
| Bird In Bush School | C+ | 60% | 58% |
| Tower Bridge Primary School | C+ | 63% | 58% |
| Rye Oak Primary School | C+ | 52% | 58% |
| Goose Green Primary and Nursery School | C+ | 46% | 58% |
| Crawford Primary School | C | 51% | 57% |
| Goodrich Community Primary School | C | 23% | 55% |
| St Jude's Church of England Primary School | C | 83% | 55% |
| St George's Church of England Primary School | C | 60% | 54% |
| Robert Browning Primary School | C− | 62% | 53% |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | C− | 48% | 51% |
| Oliver Goldsmith Primary School | C− | 59% | 49% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025183 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
Friars Primary Foundation 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: School remains Good, February 2024.
Living near Friars Primary Foundation School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SE1 0, the school’s postcode sector
Southwark property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SE1 0 sell for well over Southwark’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
58 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Southwark, SE1 0RF
Friars Primary Foundation School: common questions
Is Friars Primary Foundation 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: Good, February 2024.
How hard is it to get into Friars Primary Foundation School?
For September 2026, 15 families put Friars Primary Foundation School first and all of them were offered a place; 23 places were offered in all.
What is Friars Primary Foundation School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (February 2024).
How much do houses cost near Friars Primary Foundation School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SE1 0, sold for a median £635,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (172 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; Southwark’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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