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Coppermill Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Waltham Forest, E17 6PB · Waltham Forest local authority

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

Its letter
90%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
30/45
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
195 pupils
93% of its 210 places
Free school meals
14%
14 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Coppermill Primary School

  • Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 90% of England’s primary schools
  • 79% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17 points above England’s schools
  • 14% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 67% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 45)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E17 6) sold for a median £550,000; Waltham Forest’s is £530,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 79%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 90% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Waltham Forest avg 72%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Coppermill Primary 79%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 111, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading90%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)86%
England’s schools 73%
Maths95%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling95%
England’s schools 74%
Reached the higher standard in all three14%
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 Coppermill Primary School?

67% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

45
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
67%
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 (17), 2020 (5), 2021 (20), 2022 (2), 2023 (21), 2024 (3), 2025 (6), 2026 (15). 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

Coppermill Primary
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
1.10 per place
88% 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 →Coppermill
ABCDElsewhere in Waltham ForestCoppermill 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

183 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
18.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
55.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
16.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

Coppermill Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths ABetter than 90% 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 Good, June 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Coppermill Primary School

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

Home prices in E17 6, the school’s postcode sector

Waltham Forest property prices →
£550,000
median sale, 651 sales in 36 months · Waltham Forest £530,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E17 6Waltham Forest
E17 6Waltham Forest

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£660K
Terraced
£713K
Flat
£405K
E17 6Waltham Forest

Homes in E17 6 sell for a little over 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

49 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA+A−A−BB−B+CC−B−BA−AB+A+DA−B−CC+ADBB+C−A−ACA+AD−A+AA−B+A+AABA+AA+B+B+AC−DB−B−ACoppermill Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Waltham Forest, E17 6PB

Coppermill Primary School: common questions

Is Coppermill Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 90% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 79% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2024.

How hard is it to get into Coppermill Primary School?

For September 2026, 45 families put Coppermill Primary School first and 30 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is Coppermill Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2024).

How much do houses cost near Coppermill Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E17 6, sold for a median £550,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (651 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.