Goodrich Community Primary School

Goodrich Community Primary School is a welcoming, harmonious primary where pupils feel safe and enjoy school. Since the previous inspection, leaders have made significant improvements, including a more ambitious curriculum, stronger behaviour systems and better support for pupils’ well-being. Pupils achieve well, including in national reading and mathematics tests, and early years children settle quickly and learn well. Reading is a particular priority, with effective phonics and support helping most pupils become fluent, enthusiastic readers. Safeguarding is effective, attendance systems are robust, and relationships between staff and pupils are strong. Parents and staff are positive about the changes and the school’s caring ethos. There are still areas to develop. The new curriculum is not yet implemented as securely in some subjects as in the core subjects, and teachers’ checking of learning is sometimes not effective, leaving gaps in pupils’ understanding. Teaching is not consistently adapted for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, so some face barriers to achieving as well as they could and to accessing the full curriculum and wider school life. The school is a community primary supported by the GEM Federation, with 466 pupils aged 3 to 11. Leaders and governors know the school well and are held to account appropriately, while staff well-being is considered. The report’s clear next steps focus on consistent curriculum implementation, better checking and correction of misconceptions, and strengthening provision for SEND and disadvantaged pupils.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and know who to talk to if they have a concern.
• Pupils follow the school’s code of conduct consistently and behaviour has improved.
• The curriculum is broad, balanced and more ambitious than at the previous inspection.
• Pupils achieve well, including in national reading and mathematics tests.
• Children in the early years settle quickly and learn very well together.
• Support for pupils’ social and emotional well-being is a strength of the school.
• Bullying is rare and staff take swift, effective action when it occurs.
• Pupils value a wide range of extra-curricular clubs such as cooking, ceramics and drumming.
• Strong relationships between staff and pupils create a harmonious learning environment.
• Reading is prioritised from Reception and most pupils become enthusiastic readers.
• The school has sharpened its systems for identifying pupils with SEND.
• The wider development programme is well thought out and age-appropriate.
• Attendance systems are robust and the school acts quickly on patterns of concern.
• Staff are positive about recent changes and feel their well-being is considered.
• Governors know the school community well and hold leaders to account.
• Parents are very positive about the care and support staff provide.

Areas for Improvement

• The new curriculum is not implemented as consistently in some subjects as in the core subjects.
• Teachers’ checks of what pupils have learned are sometimes not effective, leaving gaps in understanding.
• Some teaching strategies are not adapted well enough for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
• Some pupils with SEND face barriers to achieving more highly.
• Academic outcomes are not as strong as they could be for some disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND.
• Key groups of pupils do not always fully access the new curriculum and wider aspects of school life.

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 Goodrich Community Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.7% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Goodrich Community 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 Goodrich Community Primary School had 18.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 25.9% 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, 14.0% of pupils at Goodrich Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 Goodrich Community Primary School received £9,274 and spent £9,025 for each of its 413 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £629,000 (-£1,524 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 Goodrich Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Goodrich Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Goodrich Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Goodrich Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Goodrich Community Primary School have?

Goodrich Community Primary School has 421 pupils on roll.

What age range does Goodrich Community Primary School cover?

Goodrich Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Goodrich Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Goodrich Community Primary School?

Goodrich Community Primary School is at Dunstans Road, East Dulwich, London, SE22 0EP.