Pinner Wood School

About Pinner Wood School

Pinner Wood School’s most recent Ofsted inspection, in December 2023, awarded it the highest possible rating of Outstanding across every single category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a clean sweep, and it matches the Outstanding rating the school held in its previous inspection back in 2011. But the real story is in the exam data. At Key Stage 2, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — that’s two percentage points above the Harrow local authority average of 72%. The school’s ranking score of 74 places it 18th out of 38 primary schools in the borough, putting it in the top 25% nationally. For a school of 670 pupils, that’s a solid, above-average performance that suggests consistent teaching across the board.

Digging into the individual subjects, the picture is even sharper. In reading, 90% of pupils hit the expected standard, with 43% reaching the higher standard. Maths tells a similar story: 90% at expected and 45% at the higher level. Writing is the relative weak spot — 77% at expected and 21% at higher — but that still beats the national average for most schools. The average scaled scores of 108 in both reading and maths are comfortably above the national benchmark of 100. Compared with the top performers in Harrow — Krishna Avanti Primary School (score 92) and St John Fisher Catholic Primary (89) — Pinner Wood sits in the middle of the pack, but it’s worth noting that the school is one of only ten Outstanding primaries in a borough of 41 state primary schools. That’s a select group.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for 87 places in the 2025/26 intake, there were 356 applications, a ratio of over four applicants per place. Of those, 130 put it as their first preference, and 85 first-preference offers were made. That kind of demand tells you local families see it as a strong option. Facilities include a sports hall, playing fields, a forest school area and an ICT suite, plus a chapel. There’s a nursery on site for children from age three, and the school offers a resourced provision for pupils with autistic spectrum disorder, alongside support for dyslexia, speech and language needs, and social, emotional and mental health. Clubs range from chess and choir to gardening and eco club, and sports include swimming, netball and gymnastics. This is a school that suits families who want strong academic foundations without a narrow focus — and who are prepared to compete for a place.

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