Northwold Primary School

About Northwold Primary School

Northwold Primary School’s headline metrics put it well ahead of the Hackney average for primary schools. While the local authority average for pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at Key Stage 2 sits at 74%, Northwold’s figure is 88%. That gap of 14 percentage points is significant, and it places the school fifth out of 49 primaries in Hackney, comfortably inside the top 10%. The school’s ranking score of 88 also puts it in the top 5% nationally. This is a school that clearly outperforms its local peers on the core academic benchmark, and it does so while serving a community where nearly half of pupils (49.7%) are eligible for free school meals — well above the national average. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in December 2024, awarded Outstanding across every category that was graded: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a clean sweep, and a notable upgrade from its previous Good rating in 2017.

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