West Green Primary School

About West Green Primary School

West Green Primary School sits within Haringey, a London borough where 18 of 63 primary schools hold an Outstanding Ofsted rating. The school itself ranks 32nd out of 51 primaries in the local authority on the key stage 2 expected standard measure, placing it just below the middle of the pack. The top-performing peers in the area are Lift Trinity, Rhodes Avenue Primary School and Lift Noel Park, all of which score higher on the same metric. West Green is a mixed, state-funded primary for children aged 4 to 11, with no religious character and no nursery provision. The headteacher is Mary Gardiner, and the school currently has 208 pupils against a capacity of 218, meaning it is very close to full. It is also heavily oversubscribed: for 30 places in the 2025/26 intake, there were 174 applications, giving an oversubscription ratio of 5.8, and only 23 first-preference offers were made from 29 first-preference applications.

Academically, West Green’s most recent Ofsted inspection in 2021 rated the school Good overall, with Good marks for leadership and management, early years provision and behaviour and attitudes. This is a clear improvement from its previous graded inspection in 2016, which rated the school Requires Improvement. In the 2023/24 key stage 2 results, 68% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, just below the Haringey local authority average of 69%. The school’s strongest individual subject was maths, where 82% met the expected standard and 45% reached the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 108. Reading saw 82% at expected and 27% at higher, with an average score of 105, while writing had 68% at expected and 23% at higher. Progress scores are not available for any subject, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils’ starting points.

The school offers a solid range of facilities including an ICT suite, gymnasium, sports hall, music rooms and a chapel. Sports on offer include cricket, netball, football, cross country, swimming and rounders, and there are clubs such as film club, gardening, choir, drama and science club. For SEND, West Green provides support for specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder, plus a resourced provision. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary is St John Vianney RC Primary School, just 0.2 km away, which may be a consideration for families prioritising that rating. Given its oversubscription and strong local demand, West Green is a school that suits families who live close enough to secure a place and value a broad extracurricular offer alongside a Good-rated, improving academic environment.

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