Muswell Hill Primary School

About Muswell Hill Primary School

Muswell Hill Primary School’s headline metrics put it comfortably ahead of the Haringey local authority average for primary schools. While the LA average for pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined sits at 69%, Muswell Hill achieves 76% — a solid seven-point advantage. That places the school 19th out of 51 primaries in the borough, landing it in the top 25% nationally for this key measure. The school’s overall Ofsted rating is Good, awarded in December 2021, but the detail is more nuanced: behaviour and attitudes, and personal development, were both judged Outstanding. Leadership and management, quality of education, and early years provision all came out as Good. Compared with its previous inspection in 2006, when it was rated Outstanding overall, this represents a slight step back, but the school remains a strong performer within Haringey’s primary landscape.

Digging into the 2023/24 KS2 results, Muswell Hill’s pupils perform particularly well in reading. The average reading score is 109, and 42% of pupils reached the higher standard — a figure that suggests strong literacy teaching. In maths, the average score is 107, with 32% achieving the higher threshold. Writing sees 32% at the higher standard, and 86% of pupils met the expected standard in writing, while 88% did so in reading. Maths expected attainment is slightly lower at 80%, but still above the national average. The school does not publish Progress 8 scores for KS2, so it’s not possible to say how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points. However, the raw attainment figures are consistently above the LA average, and the school ranks 18th out of 63 primaries of the same type in Haringey. For context, the nearest Outstanding-rated primary is Our Lady of Muswell Catholic Primary School, just 0.7 km away.

Muswell Hill Primary is heavily oversubscribed: for 60 places in 2025/26, it received 349 applications, a ratio of nearly six to one. Only 43 first-preference offers were made from 61 first-preference applications, so securing a place is competitive. The school serves 419 pupils, almost at its capacity of 420, and 8.8% are eligible for free school meals — below the national average. Facilities include a library, ICT suite, music rooms, playing fields and a chapel. Sports on offer include football, swimming, gymnastics and cross country, while clubs range from coding and chess to gardening and eco club. The school’s SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a school that suits families prioritising strong academic outcomes in a well-resourced, inclusive setting, but they’ll need to be prepared for a competitive admissions process.

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