Ranelagh Primary School

Ranelagh Primary School is a highly inclusive and welcoming school where pupils follow an ambitious curriculum from the early years onwards. Pupils enjoy school, attend regularly and behave exceptionally well. Staff have high expectations, and pupils mostly achieve well, including in national assessments. The school is particularly strong in supporting its higher-than-average proportion of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), who are well supported and fully involved in school life. Reading is prioritised, enrichment activities support character development, and strong community and parental engagement are notable features. The school’s curriculum is well designed and typically well taught, and children get off to a strong start in the early years. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. However, assessment checks do not consistently identify pupils’ misconceptions, meaning some pupils develop gaps in knowledge that go unaddressed. In addition, some aspects of the PSHE curriculum have not been fully implemented, so pupils are less knowledgeable about those elements of personal, social and health education. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first graded inspection under section 5; it had previously been inspected under section 8 in 2019. The school is part of The Tapscott Learning Trust, and the headteacher took up post in January 2023. No overall effectiveness grade is given under the current inspection framework.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive and welcoming school community
• Pupils behave exceptionally well and relationships are positive
• Ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum across subjects
• Strong early years provision that prepares children well for key stage 1
• Effective support for pupils with SEND, including prompt identification and adapted learning
• Reading is prioritised and pupils develop a love of books
• Attendance has improved sharply through effective systems and family support
• Rich enrichment activities support pupils’ character development
• Strong engagement with parents, carers and the local community
• Staff value professional development and workload and well-being support

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment checks do not consistently identify misconceptions, leaving some pupils with unaddressed gaps in knowledge
• Some aspects of the PSHE curriculum have not been fully implemented, limiting pupils’ knowledge in those areas

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 Ranelagh Primary School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.1% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Ranelagh 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 Ranelagh Primary School had 16.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.1% 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, 10.6% of pupils at Ranelagh Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 19.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 20 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 2024–25 Ranelagh Primary School received £12,311 and spent £11,943 for each of its 288 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £136,000 (£474 per pupil).

Across all 4 schools of The Tapscott Learning Trust, income was £9,722 and spending £9,663 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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Ranelagh Primary School is part of The Tapscott Learning Trust, which runs 4 schools. The nearest others:

• Curwen Primary School London
• Kensington Primary School London
• North Beckton Primary School London

What is Ranelagh Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Ranelagh Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Ranelagh Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Ranelagh Primary School have?

Ranelagh Primary School has 263 pupils on roll.

What age range does Ranelagh Primary School cover?

Ranelagh Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 77% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Ranelagh Primary School?

Ranelagh Primary School is at Corporation Street, Stratford, London, E15 3DN.