Ashmole Primary School

About Ashmole Primary School

Ashmole Primary School holds an Outstanding rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained across both its most recent graded inspection in 2019 and an ungraded inspection in 2025 that confirmed standards are being maintained. The school’s leadership, management, and early years provision were each judged Outstanding, and the inspection team noted that the school continues to deliver a high-quality education. The most telling exam metric comes from Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year: 93% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits well above the Barnet local authority average of 73% and places Ashmole third out of 91 primary schools in the borough. Nationally, the school ranks in the top 1% of all primary schools for this measure, and within London it sits in the top 2%.

Digging deeper into the 2023/24 results, the school’s performance is consistently strong across individual subjects. In maths, 98% of pupils reached the expected standard and 55% achieved the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 110. Reading saw 95% at the expected level, again 55% at the higher standard, and the same average score of 110. In writing, 95% met the expected standard and 45% reached the higher mark. A third of pupils achieved the higher standard across all three subjects. These figures put Ashmole second in Barnet on the combined expected standard metric, behind only Courtland School. The school’s ranking score of 93 places it in the top 5% nationally, and it is one of 14 Outstanding primary schools in the borough. For context, the nearest other Outstanding-rated primary is Trent CofE Primary School, 2.6 kilometres away.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 319 applications for 60 places, with 101 families listing it as their first preference. All 60 first-preference offers were taken up, giving an oversubscription ratio of over five to one. Facilities include a sports hall, gymnasium, ICT suite, forest school area, sensory room and an outdoor playground, with clubs covering art, drama and eco activities. Sports on offer include cricket, swimming, tennis and rounders. The school’s SEND provisions cover speech, language and communication needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and social, emotional and mental health support. Parent View responses from 163 families between September 2024 and September 2025 show very high satisfaction: 97% of respondents would recommend the school, and 97% agreed or strongly agreed that their child is happy. However, SEND support drew a more mixed response, with 46% of parents who expressed a view disagreeing that the school gives SEND children the support they need.

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