Nightingale Primary School

Type Primary / Community school
Age Range 3-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Tiger Way
Hackney
London
E5 8NA
Phone 02089854259
Reference Number 100254

Nightingale Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating in the quality of education, early years provision, and ‘Outstanding’ ratings in behavior and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. Pupils display enthusiasm in their learning and are notably supported well, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds or with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). The school's curriculum is broad and designed to engage pupils with real-world applications, fostering responsible citizenship and promoting high achievement across subjects like reading, writing, and mathematics.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 366
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 50.82%
Girls: 49.18%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 54.6%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 39.3%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 20.7
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 19
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 21.9

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 28 18 46
2 21 23 44
3 22 20 42
4 31 26 57
5 28 21 49
6 22 27 49

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
African 19.4%
White, Other 17.8%
Caribbean 14.8%
Mixed, Other 9.6%
White, British 9%
Indian 4.6%
Pakistani 2.2%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.4%
Asian, Other 1.1%
White & Black (African) 0.8%

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
 >  Quality of education Good
  >  Behaviour & Attitude Outstanding
  >  Personal Development Outstanding
  >  Leadership & Management Outstanding
  >  Early Years Provision Good
Last Report Date 08 Jun 2023
Date Report
08 Jun 2023 School inspection:
03 Oct 2017 Short inspection
05 Jun 2013 Full inspection:
01 Mar 2010 Full inspection:
28 Feb 2008 Monitoring visit
14 Feb 2007 Full inspection:
08 Dec 2005 Full inspection:
10 Jan 2000 Full inspection

Strengths

  • Pupils achieve highly in reading, writing, and mathematics.
  • The school's curriculum is ambitious and well-organized.
  • Strong support for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND.
  • Outstanding behavior and attitudes among pupils.
  • Leaders are ambitious and work closely with the community.

Areas for Improvement

  • Some teachers do not rigorously check knowledge retention in all subjects.
  • Inconsistent effectiveness in developing learning in a few subjects.

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 61%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 6%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 103
Maths 102

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 0.7
Writing 2.3
Maths 2.3

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2025 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 23 7
Third Preference 23 3
From another Local Authority 2 0

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