Coombe Hill Junior School

About Coombe Hill Junior School

Coombe Hill Junior School sits comfortably above the Kingston upon Thames average for its key stage 2 headline measure. While the local authority average for pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined sits at 66%, Coombe Hill achieves 76% — a ten-percentage-point advantage that places it sixth out of 27 primary schools in the borough. That puts the school in the top quarter nationally for this metric. It’s a strong, consistent performer in a competitive local area, and the gap to the LA average is wide enough to suggest genuine academic strength rather than just a marginal edge. The school is also one of ten outstanding-rated primaries in Kingston, and its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023 awarded top marks across every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management all rated outstanding. That’s a clean sweep that matches its previous outstanding rating from 2010.

Digging into the 2023/24 key stage 2 results, Coombe Hill’s performance is solid across the core subjects. In reading, 85% of pupils reached the expected standard, with 41% working at a higher level. Maths tells a similar story: 85% at expected and 42% at greater depth. Writing sees 87% at expected and 25% at the higher threshold. The average scaled scores — 107 in both reading and maths — are above the national benchmark of 100. The combined expected standard figure of 76% is the one that drives the school’s strong local ranking, but it’s worth noting that the individual subject percentages are all higher than that combined figure, which is typical for a school where most children meet the bar across all three subjects. Progress scores aren’t available in the data, so it’s not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points, but the raw outcomes are clearly above average for Kingston.

The school is almost at capacity with 358 pupils against a published number of 360, so it’s a popular choice for families in the area. It’s a junior school taking children from age 7 to 11, with no nursery or sixth form provision. Facilities include a library, gymnasium, playing fields, art studios and a chapel, and the sports on offer cover dance, football, tennis, gymnastics and cricket. There’s a decent range of clubs — science, chess and coding — and the SEND provision is notably broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, hearing and visual impairments, and autistic spectrum disorder. For families looking for a high-performing state primary in Kingston upon Thames, Coombe Hill Junior School offers strong academic outcomes, a full set of outstanding Ofsted grades, and a wide-reaching support system for children with additional needs.

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