Ravenscroft Primary School

Ravenscroft Primary School is performing exceptionally well. Inspectors found an ambitious, carefully sequenced curriculum from the early years to Year 6, delivered expertly by staff who check understanding and help pupils retain knowledge. Reading and phonics are high priorities, pupils achieve highly across subjects, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are exceptionally well supported, including through the school’s specialist autism provision. Pupils behave exceptionally well, feel safe and benefit from a highly inclusive culture that parents and carers regard very positively.

Strengths

• Exceptionally ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum across all subjects and year groups
• Expert teaching with effective questioning and regular revisiting of prior learning
• Strong phonics and reading provision that helps pupils become fluent, confident readers
• Exceptional support for pupils with SEND, including high-quality specialist autism provision
• Exemplary pupil behaviour and attitudes, with low-level disruption extremely rare
• Highly inclusive culture where pupils feel safe and parents are overwhelmingly positive
• Broad personal development and enrichment programme, including trips, leadership roles and extra-curricular activities
• Robust attendance work with families and external agencies, leading to sustained improvement
• Highly ambitious leadership and governance, with strong trust support and manageable staff workload
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

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 Ravenscroft Primary School attended 93.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.4% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Ravenscroft 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 Ravenscroft Primary School had 16.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.2% 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, 13.4% of pupils at Ravenscroft Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 4 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 Ravenscroft Primary School received £9,826 and spent £9,949 for each of its 497 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £939,000 (£1,890 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of The Boleyn Trust, income was £9,316 and spending £9,435 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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Ravenscroft Primary School is part of The Boleyn Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Rosetta Primary School London
• Tollgate Primary School London
• New City Primary School London
• Cleves Primary School London
• Shaftesbury Primary School London
• The Clara Grant Primary School London
• Monega Primary School London

What is Ravenscroft Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Ravenscroft Primary School is Outstanding, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Ravenscroft Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Ravenscroft Primary School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Ravenscroft Primary School have?

Ravenscroft Primary School has 479 pupils on roll.

What age range does Ravenscroft Primary School cover?

Ravenscroft Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Ravenscroft Primary School?

Ravenscroft Primary School is at Carson Road, London, E16 4BD.