Barrow Hedges Primary School
Sutton, SM5 4LA · Sutton local authority
Sutton’s School Grade A+ better than 97% of towns in England
What stands out about Barrow Hedges Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 89% of England’s primary schools
- 78% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16 points above England’s schools
- 7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, July 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 73% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (83 of 114)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SM5 4) sold for a median £615,000; Sutton’s is £455,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 78%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 89% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Sutton avg 71%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 110 (100 = the expected standard)
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 Barrow Hedges Primary School?
73% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (24), 2020 (9), 2021 (5), 2023 (2), 2024 (46), 2025 (24), 2026 (31). 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. Cirrus Primary Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sutton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
73% got their first choice
Sutton and Sutton, side by side
2023–2025All 32 graded primaries in Sutton. 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. Sutton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westbourne Primary School | A+ | 13% | 87% |
| St Elphege's RC Junior School | A+ | 22% | 87% |
| Cheam Common Junior Academy | A+ | 8% | 86% |
| Cheam Fields Primary Academy | A+ | 6% | 86% |
| Manor Park Primary Academy | A+ | 17% | 85% |
| Beddington Park Academy | A | 31% | 82% |
| Robin Hood Junior School | A | 20% | 81% |
| Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy | A | 6% | 81% |
| Brookfield Primary Academy | A | 14% | 81% |
| St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School | A | 4% | 81% |
| Barrow Hedges Primary School | A | 7% | 78% |
| St Mary's RC Junior School | A | 6% | 76% |
| Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity Base | A | 32% | 76% |
| Stanley Park Junior School | A− | 10% | 75% |
| All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary School | A− | 6% | 75% |
| St Dunstan's Cheam CofE Primary School | A− | 11% | 73% |
| All Saints Benhilton CofE Primary School | A− | 12% | 71% |
| Harris Junior Academy Carshalton | A− | 20% | 71% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Junior School | B+ | 23% | 70% |
| Abbey Primary School | B+ | 22% | 69% |
| Hackbridge Primary School | B+ | 22% | 68% |
| Dorchester Primary School | B+ | 18% | 68% |
| Avenue Primary Academy | B+ | 13% | 68% |
| Wood Field Primary School | B | 24% | 66% |
| High View Primary School | B− | 12% | 64% |
| Culvers House Primary School | B− | 28% | 64% |
| Bandon Hill Primary School | B− | 19% | 64% |
| Devonshire Primary School | C+ | 27% | 60% |
| Rushy Meadow Primary Academy | C | 33% | 54% |
| Green Wrythe Primary School | C− | 40% | 52% |
| Tweeddale Primary School | D | 44% | 46% |
| Wallington Primary Academy | D− | 55% | 35% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025689 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
Barrow Hedges 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.
Graded inspection: Outstanding, July 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), April 2022.
Living near Barrow Hedges Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SM5 4, the school’s postcode sector
Sutton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SM5 4 sell for well over Sutton’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
22 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Sutton, SM5 4LA
Barrow Hedges Primary School: common questions
Is Barrow Hedges Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 89% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 78% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, July 2023.
How hard is it to get into Barrow Hedges Primary School?
For September 2026, 114 families put Barrow Hedges Primary School first and 83 of them were offered a place; 89 places were offered in all.
What is Barrow Hedges Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (July 2023).
How much do houses cost near Barrow Hedges Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SM5 4, sold for a median £615,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (183 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.
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