Cooper's Lane Primary School

Cooper’s Lane Primary is a welcoming, highly inclusive school that is performing strongly overall. Inspectors found an open safeguarding culture, strong attendance and behaviour, an ambitious and well-taught curriculum, highly effective early years provision, and well-coordinated inclusion support. Pupils are proud of their school, behave respectfully, and benefit from a broad personal development and enrichment programme. Leadership and governance are collaborative and reflective, and staff feel well supported. The main area for further development is achievement. Current pupils achieve well and standards are improving, especially in English and mathematics, but national assessment outcomes at the end of Year 6 remain close to national averages rather than typically above them. Disadvantaged pupils’ combined outcomes also remain below non-disadvantaged national levels, and leaders’ next step is to continue work so that pupils make the progress needed for above-average outcomes. Contextually, this is a large primary school with an above-average proportion of pupils with EHC plans and a local authority resourced provision for hearing-impaired pupils; the school is in an area of above-average deprivation. These factors inform the school’s strong inclusive practice.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive culture where every pupil is known, valued and supported to succeed
• Strong attendance that is above average and improving year on year
• Clear and consistent behaviour approach; pupils are courteous and learning is rarely disrupted
• Ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum with effective teaching and assessment
• Reading and phonics are prioritised and taught consistently well
• Effective adaptation for pupils with SEND, including specialist hearing-impaired provision
• Early years provides a strong start through highly effective teaching and warm relationships
• High-quality personal development and enrichment, including visits, clubs and pupil voice
• Strong pastoral care that helps pupils develop confidence, resilience and independence
• Collaborative leadership with effective governance and high-quality staff development
• Open and positive safeguarding culture with safeguarding standards met
• Leaders remove barriers to participation and use additional funding strategically

Areas for Improvement

• National test outcomes remain close to national averages rather than typically above average
• Disadvantaged pupils’ combined reading, writing and mathematics outcomes remain below non-disadvantaged national levels, with a wider gap in 2024/25
• Leaders need to continue improving pupil progress so that outcomes are typically above average in national tests

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Cooper's Lane Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.9% of pupils at Cooper's Lane Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Cooper's Lane Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 17.0% of pupils at Cooper's Lane Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 9 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Cooper's Lane Primary School received £8,771 and spent £8,867 for each of its 639 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £16,000 (£25 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Cooper's Lane Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Cooper's Lane Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Cooper's Lane Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Cooper's Lane Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Cooper's Lane Primary School have?

Cooper's Lane Primary School has 646 pupils on roll.

What age range does Cooper's Lane Primary School cover?

Cooper's Lane Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Cooper's Lane Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Cooper's Lane Primary School?

Cooper's Lane Primary School is at Pragnell Road, London, SE12 0LF.