Griffin Primary School

Griffin Primary School is currently judged as needing improvement across several key areas, despite demonstrating strengths in behaviour, attitudes, and early years provision. The school has a friendly atmosphere where pupils show kindness and respect to one another, and they feel safe. However, there are significant concerns regarding the quality of education, particularly in curriculum implementation where some pupils are experiencing knowledge gaps due to unclear sequencing of important content. The leadership team, which is relatively new, is actively working to address these issues amidst the context of the wider support from The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust.

Strengths

• Pupils display mature and responsible behaviour.
• The school fosters a positive school environment filled with supportive relationships.
• Pupils feel safe and have mechanisms to communicate concerns.
• There is a strong focus on reading with effective phonics teaching.
• Pupils with SEND receive appropriate support and adaptations.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum sequencing and identification of important knowledge have not been fully implemented in all subjects.
• Some resources and tasks do not effectively assist pupils in learning key content.

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 Griffin Primary School attended 91.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 25.6% 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, 2.8% of pupils at Griffin 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 Griffin Primary School had 13.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 61.3% 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, 19.4% of pupils at Griffin Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 9.0% 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 Griffin Primary School received £9,905 and spent £10,619 for each of its 180 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £93,000 (£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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Griffin Primary School is part of The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, which runs 37 schools. The nearest others:

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

What is Griffin Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Griffin Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Griffin Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Griffin Primary School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Griffin Primary School have?

Griffin Primary School has 155 pupils on roll.

What age range does Griffin Primary School cover?

Griffin Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 50% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Griffin Primary School?

Griffin Primary School is at Stewarts Road, London, SW8 4JB.