The Clara Grant Primary School

The Clara Grant Primary School is a highly effective, inclusive school serving a disadvantaged urban community. Inspectors found that pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make excellent progress and achieve outcomes well above national averages. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, teaching is highly consistent, and early years provision is particularly strong. Safeguarding standards are met. Leadership and governance are a major strength: leaders know the community well, use research and careful monitoring, and the trust provides strong support. Pupils' personal development and behaviour are strong, with a coherent programme, wide cultural opportunities and calm, positive classrooms. Attendance has improved and disadvantaged pupils attend better than national peers, though overall absence remains above the national average and leaders are asked to keep building on their attendance work. The school is part of the Boleyn Academy Trust and has a new principal. It serves a community with well-above-average levels of disadvantage and a high proportion of pupils with education, health and care plans, and inspectors found that leaders' work has a transformational impact on pupils' outcomes and experiences.

Strengths

• Excellent progress and outcomes for all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND
• Broad, ambitious curriculum that goes beyond the national curriculum, including French and Mandarin
• Highly effective teaching with strong foundations in English and mathematics
• Exceptional early years provision that prepares children very well for Year 1
• Strong inclusion and swift identification and support for SEND and disadvantaged pupils
• Transformational leadership and governance with strong trust support
• Coherent personal development programme and wide cultural opportunities
• Positive behaviour and strong relationships across the school
• Attendance has improved, with disadvantaged pupils attending better than national peers
• Safeguarding standards met

Areas for Improvement

• Overall absence remains above the national average, and leaders should maintain and build on attendance work, including swift support and challenge for families whose children's attendance needs to improve.

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 The Clara Grant Primary School attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.4% 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, 0.0% of pupils at The Clara Grant 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 The Clara Grant Primary School had 19.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 21.4% 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, 8.2% of pupils at The Clara Grant Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.7% 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 The Clara Grant Primary School received £9,389 and spent £9,612 for each of its 412 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £778,000 (£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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The Clara Grant Primary School is part of The Boleyn Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Ravenscroft Primary School London
• Rosetta Primary School London
• Tollgate Primary School London
• New City Primary School London
• Shaftesbury Primary School London
• Cleves Primary School London
• Monega Primary School London

What is The Clara Grant Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for The Clara Grant Primary School is Strong standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was The Clara Grant Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

The Clara Grant Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does The Clara Grant Primary School have?

The Clara Grant Primary School has 389 pupils on roll.

What age range does The Clara Grant Primary School cover?

The Clara Grant Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are The Clara Grant Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is The Clara Grant Primary School?

The Clara Grant Primary School is at Knapp Road, Bow, London, E3 4BU.