Coppetts Wood Primary School

About Coppetts Wood Primary School

Coppetts Wood Primary School is a mixed state primary in the London borough of Barnet, serving children aged 2 to 11. It sits 78th out of 91 primary schools in the local authority, placing it in the bottom half of Barnet’s league table. The top-performing peers in the area include Courtland School, St Andrew’s CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School in Totteridge, and Ashmole Primary School, the nearest school rated Outstanding, which is 3.2 kilometres away. The school has a capacity of 269 pupils but currently enrols 227, and it is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, 19 places attracted 55 applications, with all 19 first-preference offers taken up. Nearly a third of pupils (32.5 per cent) are eligible for free school meals, a figure well above the national average and a key marker of the school’s intake profile.

Academically, the school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2023 rated it Requires Improvement across all categories, including quality of education, behaviour, personal development, and leadership. This is a significant drop from its previous inspection in 2011, when it was judged Outstanding. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments, 52 per cent of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, compared with the Barnet local authority average of 73 per cent. Only 6 per cent achieved the higher standard in all three subjects. Reading and maths average scores were 105 and 104 respectively, both slightly above the national benchmark of 100, but progress measures were not reported. The school ranks 77th out of 80 Barnet primaries on the KS2 expected standard metric, and in the bottom 50 per cent nationally.

The school offers a range of facilities including music rooms, a gymnasium, a sensory room, a library and a chapel. Sports provision covers football, cross country, rounders and cricket, while clubs include coding, chess, book club and eco club. Nursery provision is available from age 2. The school’s SEND register covers social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. Given its oversubscription and relatively small size, Coppetts Wood is a popular local choice for families who value its inclusive SEND offer and on-site nursery, though parents should weigh the Requires Improvement rating and below-average KS2 outcomes against the convenience of a neighbourhood school with strong community ties.

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