Oriel Academy West London

Oriel Academy West London is performing at the expected standard across all evaluated areas, and safeguarding standards are met. The school is part of Aspirations Academies Trust and has had significant leadership change, including a principal appointed in September 2025. Its context includes above-average free school meals and SEN support, below-average EHC plans, and a well-above-average level of location deprivation. The school's main strengths are a positive and safe culture, strong behaviour, improving attendance, a well-sequenced curriculum focused on reading, writing and mathematics, and effective inclusion and personal development. Pupils enjoy school, feel supported, and leave well prepared for secondary education. Leadership and trust governance are effective, with leaders using research and tracking to refine provision. The main areas for development are consistency and precision. Teachers occasionally miss or do not address underlying knowledge gaps quickly enough, activities and resources are sometimes not well matched to intended learning, and early years interactions occasionally fail to embed key knowledge. Recent curriculum changes are moving in the right direction but are not yet fully securing deeper understanding for all pupils, especially in some cases where disadvantaged pupils' recent outcomes show gaps.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, safe and behave responsibly and conscientiously.
• Attendance is improving, and leaders act effectively to reduce absence.
• The curriculum is well sequenced and builds knowledge from the early years onwards.
• Leaders prioritise secure foundations in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Inclusion is effective, with tailored support for pupils with SEND and other barriers.
• Personal development is comprehensive, including safeguarding, wellbeing and wider opportunities.
• Early years provision builds warm relationships and helps children settle quickly.
• Leadership and trust governance are effective and informed by research.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve above national averages over the latest three-year period in key measures.
• Pupils leave well prepared for secondary education.

Areas for Improvement

• Underlying gaps in pupils' knowledge are not always identified and addressed swiftly enough.
• Teaching activities and resources are occasionally not well matched to the intended learning, limiting learning opportunities.
• Early years activities and interactions sometimes do not effectively help children learn and remember important knowledge.
• Recent curriculum changes do not yet fully support all pupils to deepen their understanding as intended.
• Persistent absence remains above the national average, although it is improving.

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 Oriel Academy West London attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.0% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Oriel Academy West London 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 Oriel Academy West London had 19.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 33.0% 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, 17.1% of pupils at Oriel Academy West London were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% 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 Oriel Academy West London received £8,636 and spent £8,059 for each of its 360 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £18,000 (-£50 per pupil).

Across all 16 schools of Aspirations Academies Trust, income was £8,111 and spending £8,266 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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All schools in Hounslow · Hounslow local authority: places and applications

Oriel Academy West London is part of Aspirations Academies Trust, which runs 16 schools. The nearest others:

• Oak Hill Academy West London Feltham
• Rivers Academy West London Feltham
• Space Studio West London Hounslow
• Park Academy West London Hillingdon
• Dashwood Banbury Academy Banbury
• Wykham Park Banbury
• Futures Institute Banbury Banbury
• Harriers Banbury Academy Banbury
• Jewell Academy Bournemouth Bournemouth
• Livingstone Academy Bournemouth Bournemouth

What is Oriel Academy West London's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oriel Academy West London is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Oriel Academy West London last inspected by Ofsted?

Oriel Academy West London was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Oriel Academy West London have?

Oriel Academy West London has 333 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oriel Academy West London cover?

Oriel Academy West London for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Oriel Academy West London's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Oriel Academy West London?

Oriel Academy West London is at Hounslow Road, Hanworth, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 6QQ.