Southern Road Primary School

About Southern Road Primary School

Southern Road Primary School sits within Newham, a London borough with 68 primary schools, and ranks 16th among them — comfortably inside the top quarter. Its ranking score of 84 places it just behind the local top trio of Tollgate, Cleves and Rosetta primary schools, but ahead of the vast majority of its peers. The school is led by headteacher Helen Yearnshire and caters for children from age 2 to 11, with a nursery provision on site. It is a state-funded, mixed-gender primary with no religious character. The most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in 2023, confirmed the school remains Good — a rating it has held consistently since at least its previous graded inspection in 2014, where leadership and management, overall effectiveness and early years provision were all judged Good.

Academically, Southern Road performs well above the local average. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments, 84% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, compared with a Newham average of 74%. The school’s maths results are particularly strong: 98% of pupils reached the expected standard and 41% achieved the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 110. Reading also saw 90% at expected and 41% at the higher level, with an average score of 108. Writing was slightly lower, with 86% at expected and 19% at the higher level. Nationally, the school ranks in the top 6% of all primaries on the combined expected standard metric, and within London it sits in the top 13%. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds beyond attainment.

The school is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, it received 131 applications for 58 places, with 55 first-preference offers made — a ratio of 2.26 applicants per place. Facilities include a Forest School, ICT suite, library, sports hall and a chapel. Clubs range from art and chess to coding, gardening and film club, while sports on offer include rounders, dance, gymnastics and cricket. Southern Road has a broad SEND offer, with provisions for autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language communication needs, social emotional and mental health difficulties, dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties and physical disability. For families weighing up options, this is a solidly Good primary with strong KS2 outcomes, a clear oversubscription pattern and a wide range of enrichment — though those seeking an Outstanding rating may want to look at Curwen Primary School, just 0.7 km away.

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