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Riverley Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Waltham Forest, E10 7BZ · Waltham Forest local authority

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

Its letter
99%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
60/87
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
437 pupils
97% of its 450 places
Free school meals
23%
23 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Riverley Primary 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
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, February 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • 69% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 87)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E10 7) sold for a median £442,542; Waltham Forest’s is £530,000

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 · Waltham Forest avg 72%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Riverley Primary 93%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 110, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading88%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)89%
England’s schools 73%
Maths91%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling91%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 22 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
77%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
89%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three26%
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 Riverley Primary School?

69% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

87
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
69%
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 (30), 2021 (17), 2022 (33), 2023 (11), 2024 (23), 2025 (34), 2026 (27). 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 Griffin Schools Trust 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
Riverley Primary
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 →Riverley
ABCDElsewhere in Waltham ForestRiverley 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

450 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
8.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
33.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
25.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

Riverley Primary 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, February 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Riverley Primary School

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

Home prices in E10 7, the school’s postcode sector

Waltham Forest property prices →
£442,542
median sale, 300 sales in 36 months · Waltham Forest £530,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E10 7Waltham Forest
E10 7Waltham Forest

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£585K
Terraced
£610K
Flat
£395K
E10 7Waltham Forest

Homes in E10 7 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

44 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−C+B+A+AA−AB+B−A−BB+A+B+B+B−DAA−BB+B−CB+ADAC−D−A+A+B+A−AAA+A−A+A−A+A+B+C−A+Riverley Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Waltham Forest, E10 7BZ

Riverley Primary School: common questions

Is Riverley Primary 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, February 2023.

How hard is it to get into Riverley Primary School?

For September 2026, 87 families put Riverley Primary School first and 60 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Riverley Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (February 2023).

How much do houses cost near Riverley Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E10 7, sold for a median £442,542 over the 36 months to August 2026 (300 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.