Hermitage Primary School

About Hermitage Primary School

Hermitage Primary School is a state-funded, mixed primary school in the London borough of Hillingdon, led by headteacher Nicholas Hingley. It caters for children aged 3 to 11 and has a current roll of 446 pupils, just shy of its full capacity of 472. In the local authority’s primary school rankings, Hermitage sits at 34th out of 55 schools, placing it in the bottom half of Hillingdon’s primary providers. Its top-performing neighbours in the area include Deanesfield Primary School, Whiteheath Junior School, and The Breakspear School, all of which rank higher on the same metric. The school is non-religious and does not have a formal religious character. For families looking at alternatives, the nearest Outstanding-rated primary is John Locke Academy, located just 0.9 kilometres away. Despite its middling local rank, Hermitage has a nursery provision and a broad range of facilities that may appeal to local parents seeking a well-equipped community school.

Academically, Hermitage’s most recent Key Stage 2 results, from the 2023/24 academic year, show that 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths combined. This is just below the Hillingdon local authority average of 64%. The school’s average scores in reading and maths both sit at 106, and the proportion of pupils achieving the higher standard in those subjects is 42% for reading and 32% for maths, though the combined higher standard figure is only 3%. In its most recent graded Ofsted inspection, carried out in March 2024, the school was rated Good overall, with Good ratings for both leadership and management and the quality of education. This marks a notable improvement from its previous inspection in 2012, when it was rated Requires Improvement. The school’s most recent ungraded inspection confirmed that it remains Good, and the report is publicly available online.

Hermitage offers a solid range of facilities, including a library, sports hall, gymnasium, art studios, ICT suite, playing fields, and a forest school, alongside a chapel on site. Its sports provision covers cross country, dance, gymnastics, netball, tennis, and athletics, while extracurricular clubs include drama, choir, gardening, chess, and science club. The school has a significant SEND focus, with provisions for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, speech and language needs, visual impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. For the 2025/26 intake, the school was oversubscribed, receiving 204 applications for 60 places, with 57 offers made to first-preference applicants from 66 first-preference requests, giving an oversubscription ratio of 3.4. This suggests strong local demand, particularly from families who value the school’s inclusive SEND support and its broad extracurricular and facility offer.

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