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Gwyn Jones Primary School

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Waltham Forest, E11 1EU · Waltham Forest local authority

Waltham Forest’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England

Its letter
66%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
41/41
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
432 pupils
96% of its 452 places
Free school meals
24%
24 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Gwyn Jones 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)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (41 of 41)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E11 1) sold for a median £450,000; Waltham Forest’s is £530,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, 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 · Waltham Forest avg 72%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Gwyn Jones Primary 68%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading85%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)73%
England’s schools 73%
Maths63%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling82%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 19 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
42%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
61%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three10%
England’s schools 8% · Waltham Forest 16% · 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 Gwyn Jones Primary School?

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

41
families put it first for September 2026
47
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: 2019 (24), 2020 (18), 2021 (8), 2022 (15), 2023 (7), 2025 (13). 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. Waltham Forest council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Waltham Forest council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Waltham Forest, September 2026

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

1.50 per place
67% got their first choice
1.45 per place
69% got their first choice
1.25 per place
77% got their first choice
1.22 per place
82% got their first choice
1.20 per place
76% got their first choice
1.18 per place
83% got their first choice
1.14 per place
85% got their first choice
1.12 per place
87% got their first choice
1.11 per place
89% got their first choice
Gwyn Jones Primary
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Waltham Forest and Waltham Forest, side by side

2023–2025

All 50 graded primaries in Waltham Forest. 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. Waltham Forest’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%47%59%71%83%95%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Gwyn Jones
ABCDElsewhere in Waltham ForestGwyn Jones Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Yardley Primary SchoolA+18%95%
Riverley Primary SchoolA+23%93%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolA+13%93%
Willow Brook Primary School AcademyA+21%90%
St Saviour's Church of England Primary SchoolA+12%89%
Woodford Green Primary SchoolA+21%88%
Ainslie Wood Primary SchoolA+10%87%
Roger Ascham Primary SchoolA+28%86%
South Grove Primary SchoolA+30%85%
Barclay Primary SchoolA+27%83%
Selwyn Primary SchoolA+15%83%
Davies Lane Primary SchoolA+19%83%
The Winns Primary SchoolA16%80%
Thomas Gamuel Primary SchoolA31%80%
Walthamstow Primary AcademyA49%80%
Coppermill Primary SchoolA14%79%
Sybourn Primary SchoolA31%78%
Thorpe Hall Primary SchoolA27%77%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolA4%77%
Hillyfield Primary AcademyA16%76%
Newport SchoolA−16%75%
Stoneydown Park SchoolA−13%75%
Lime Academy LarkswoodA−28%74%
Chase Lane Primary SchoolA−25%72%
Greenleaf Primary SchoolA−20%72%
Oakhill Primary SchoolA−25%72%
Whitehall Primary SchoolA−21%71%
Mayville AcademyA−36%71%
The Jenny Hammond Primary SchoolB+21%70%
Dawlish Primary SchoolB+32%69%
Whittingham Primary AcademyB+34%69%
Henry Maynard Primary SchoolB+14%68%
Gwyn Jones Primary SchoolB+24%68%
Edinburgh Primary SchoolB38%67%
Handsworth Primary SchoolB10%67%
Parkside Primary SchoolB23%66%
The Woodside Primary AcademyB33%65%
Downsell Primary SchoolB−33%64%
George Tomlinson Primary SchoolB−14%63%
St Joseph's Catholic Junior SchoolB−28%63%
Chapel End Junior AcademyB−36%63%
Longshaw Primary AcademyB−38%63%
Buxton SchoolB−42%62%
Chingford CofE Primary SchoolC+13%60%
Salisbury Manor Primary SchoolC40%57%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolC29%56%
Barn Croft Primary SchoolC−17%52%
George Mitchell SchoolC−38%52%
Mission Grove Primary SchoolD26%47%
Emmanuel Community SchoolD−29%37%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

429 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
8.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
26.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
22.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

Gwyn Jones Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 66% 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: Standards maintained, November 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Gwyn Jones Primary School

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

Home prices in E11 1, the school’s postcode sector

Waltham Forest property prices →
£450,000
median sale, 375 sales in 36 months · Waltham Forest £530,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E11 1Waltham Forest
E11 1Waltham Forest

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.4M
Semi-detached
£930K
Terraced
£834K
Flat
£400K
E11 1Waltham Forest

Homes in E11 1 sell for well under Waltham Forest’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

39 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAAAA−AB−A−BB+A+B+B−DBB+B−B+B+ADBD−A+A+BB+A+AAA−A+A−A+A+B+C−A+B−B+Gwyn Jones Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Waltham Forest, E11 1EU

Gwyn Jones Primary School: common questions

Is Gwyn Jones 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 Gwyn Jones Primary School?

For September 2026, 41 families put Gwyn Jones Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 47 places were offered in all.

What is Gwyn Jones Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).

How much do houses cost near Gwyn Jones Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E11 1, sold for a median £450,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (375 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; Waltham Forest’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.