Priestmead Primary School and Nursery

About Priestmead Primary School and Nursery

Priestmead Primary School and Nursery sits within the Harrow local authority, where it ranks 13th out of 38 primary schools — comfortably inside the top third of its peers. Among the highest-scoring schools in the borough are Krishna Avanti Primary School, St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, and St Anselm's Catholic Primary School, all of which sit above Priestmead in the local rankings. Still, Priestmead is one of only ten primary schools in Harrow rated Outstanding by Ofsted, and its most recent graded inspection in December 2023 awarded top marks across every category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That's a clean sweep of Outstanding grades, and a notable improvement from its previous inspection in 2011, where early years provision was graded as Requires Improvement. The school is led by headteacher Amy Creamer and serves 880 pupils from ages 3 to 11, with a nursery on site.

Academically, Priestmead performs well above the local average. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments, 80% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, compared with a Harrow average of 72%. The school's score of 80 on the KS2 reading, writing and maths expected standard metric places it in the top 25% of schools nationally. Subject-level results are strong too: 93% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, with an average scaled score of 109, while 85% hit the expected level in reading and 90% in writing. At the higher standard, 14% of pupils achieved the top marks across all three subjects, with maths leading the way at 47% reaching the higher threshold. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it's not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils' starting points, but the raw outcomes are clearly above the norm for the borough.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, 341 families applied for 119 places, and 151 put Priestmead as their first preference, of whom 113 received offers. That's an oversubscription ratio of nearly three to one, so getting a place is competitive. Facilities are generous for a state primary and include a library, playing fields, a gymnasium, art studios, a forest school, a sensory room, and even a chapel. Sports on offer include swimming, athletics, tennis and football, and clubs range from coding and chess to gardening and science club. The school's SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, speech and language needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, and autistic spectrum disorder, with a resourced provision on site. This is a school that suits families looking for strong academic outcomes in a well-equipped, inclusive setting, though securing a place will require early planning and a first-preference application.

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