ARK John Archer Primary Academy

ARK John Archer Primary Academy is performing well overall, having received a 'Good' rating in all assessed areas. The school has fostered a culture of high ambition, with staff dedicated to helping pupils achieve their full potential. Students express pride in their school, enjoy participating in activities, and demonstrate positive relationships with peers and staff. The school has effective measures in place to support well-being and safety, ensuring that issues like bullying are promptly addressed.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy and proud of their school.
• Strong relationships between staff and pupils.
• High priority given to reading with effective phonics teaching.
• Teachers adapt instruction for pupils with SEND.
• Curriculum meets the breadth and ambition of national standards.
• Effective leadership with strong support from the governing body.
• Strong engagement with parents and the community.

Areas for Improvement

• Lack of clarity in identifying essential knowledge in some subjects.
• Assessments used are sometimes too general and not specific enough.

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 ARK John Archer Primary Academy attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at ARK John Archer Primary Academy 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 ARK John Archer Primary Academy had 17.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.8% 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, 15.4% of pupils at ARK John Archer Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.2% 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 ARK John Archer Primary Academy received £9,903 and spent £9,831 for each of its 202 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £600,000 (-£2,969 per pupil).

Across all 48 schools of Ark Schools, income was £9,191 and spending £9,015 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 Wandsworth · Wandsworth local authority: places and applications

ARK John Archer Primary Academy is part of Ark Schools, which runs 48 schools. The nearest others:

• Ark Bolingbroke Academy London
• Ark Putney Academy London
• Ark Evelyn Grace Academy London
• Ark All Saints Academy London
• Ark King Solomon Academy London
• Ark White City Primary Academy London
• Ark Atwood Primary Academy London
• Ark Globe Academy London
• Ark Bentworth Primary Academy London
• Ark Walworth Academy London

What is ARK John Archer Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for ARK John Archer Primary Academy is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was ARK John Archer Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

ARK John Archer Primary Academy was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does ARK John Archer Primary Academy have?

ARK John Archer Primary Academy has 195 pupils on roll.

What age range does ARK John Archer Primary Academy cover?

ARK John Archer Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are ARK John Archer Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is ARK John Archer Primary Academy?

ARK John Archer Primary Academy is at Plough Road, Battersea, London, SW11 2AA.