Elsley Primary School

Elsley Primary School is a large, highly inclusive primary school in Wembley with a resourced provision for autistic spectrum disorder. Inspectors found the school performing strongly overall, with safeguarding standards met. Most evaluated areas are at the expected standard, while personal development and wellbeing is a notable strength. Pupils are happy, safe and behave well, and leaders have created a calm, purposeful environment with positive relationships with families. The school's personal development offer is broad and ambitious, including enrichment activities, residentials, leadership roles and clubs. Inclusion is a key feature: pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils and those joining mid-year are identified quickly and supported effectively, including through the additional resource provision. Attendance has improved and is close to the national average for most groups, although persistent absence remains above national. Pupils achieve securely in national tests, with recent outcomes close to or above national in reading, writing and mathematics, and disadvantaged pupils showing marked improvement in 2024/25. The main areas for further work are the consistency of curriculum implementation in some wider subjects, which limits pupils' deeper knowledge and understanding, and the need to embed recent curriculum changes so that achievement continues to improve, particularly for disadvantaged pupils. Leaders are ambitious and well regarded, but some staff report variation in communication, consistency of leadership practice and workload.

Strengths

• Broad, coherent and highly sequenced personal development programme.
• Purposeful action to remove barriers for vulnerable pupils, including SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
• Pupils develop independence, confidence and practical life skills through enrichment and residential experiences.
• Pupils demonstrate strong understanding of personal safety and healthy relationships.
• Extensive leadership, citizenship, club and enrichment opportunities for pupils.
• Pupils achieve securely across subjects, with disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND achieving well.
• Pupils enjoy school and behave well; bullying or discrimination is rare and dealt with swiftly.
• Leaders have taken decisive action to improve attendance, now close to national average for most groups.
• Curriculum is rich, ambitious and adapted for pupils with SEND, with strong foundations in reading, writing and number.
• Early years provision is warm, well-sequenced and inclusive, with effective interventions.
• Inclusion is strong, with prompt identification of need and effective support for mid-year arrivals.
• Leadership and governance are ambitious, understand the school community well and provide tailored staff training.
• Safeguarding standards are met.
• Pupils feel happy and safe in a calm, purposeful school environment.

Areas for Improvement

• There is variation in curriculum implementation across some subjects, limiting pupils' deeper knowledge and understanding.
• Curriculum changes need to be embedded more consistently in the wider curriculum so achievement continues to improve, particularly for disadvantaged pupils.
• Some staff report variation in communication, consistency of leadership practice and workload.
• Persistent absence remains above the national average, although it is improving.
• Historical disadvantaged pupil performance gaps remain evident in the latest three-year averages, despite recent improvement.

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 Elsley Primary School attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.2% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Elsley 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 Elsley Primary School had 17.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.4% 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, 8.4% of pupils at Elsley Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.6% 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 Elsley Primary School received £8,600 and spent £8,375 for each of its 746 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £402,000 (£539 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 Elsley Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Elsley Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Elsley Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Elsley Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Elsley Primary School have?

Elsley Primary School has 758 pupils on roll.

What age range does Elsley Primary School cover?

Elsley Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Elsley Primary School?

Elsley Primary School is at Tokyngton Avenue, Wembley, HA9 6HT.