Parkfield Primary School

Parkfield Primary School continues to uphold the high standards noted in previous inspections, maintaining effective practices across the board. The school provides a positive and engaging environment where pupils display good manners and a strong commitment to learning. With ambitious expectations for both academic performance and behaviour, pupils typically respond well and engage confidently in their educational journey. Recent improvements to the curriculum have bolstered learning outcomes, though these are not yet reflected in published results.

Strengths

• Pupils show good manners and kindness towards each other.
• The school has high expectations for both learning and behaviour.
• Teaching is clear, precise, and effectively supports learning across the curriculum.
• There is a strong emphasis on reading, supported by engaging reading areas and phonics teaching.
• Pupils benefit from a range of extracurricular trips that enhance their personal development.
• The school maintains effective safeguarding arrangements.
• Staff feel supported and valued by the school leadership.

Areas for Improvement

• Adaptations for pupils with SEND are not consistently effective across all subjects.

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 Parkfield Primary School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.3% 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 Parkfield 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 Parkfield Primary School had 20.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.7% 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, 18.7% of pupils at Parkfield Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.0% 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 2024–25 Parkfield Primary School received £8,193 and spent £8,027 for each of its 421 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £217,000 (£515 per pupil).

Across all 36 schools of The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, income was £7,171 and spending £7,108 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Parkfield Primary School is part of The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, which runs 37 schools. The nearest others:

• The Hyde School London
• Claremont Primary School London
• Childs Hill Primary School London
• Greenside Primary School London
• Griffin Primary School London
• Hillingdon Primary School Uxbridge
• Pinkwell Primary School Hayes
• John Locke Academy Uxbridge
• Cippenham School Slough
• Ramsey Spinning Infant School Huntingdon

What is Parkfield Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Parkfield Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Parkfield Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Parkfield Primary School was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Parkfield Primary School have?

Parkfield Primary School has 460 pupils on roll.

What age range does Parkfield Primary School cover?

Parkfield Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Parkfield Primary School?

Parkfield Primary School is at St David's Place, Hendon, London, NW4 3PJ.