St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · London, Camden
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.39 miles
Published by London Borough of Camden · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Paul's Church of England Primary School is a primary school in London, Camden for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Camden has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
St Paul's Church of England Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | 0.39 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.39 miles away, the 7th shortest of 24 Camden primary schools with a published last distance, nearer than 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 32 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 24 offers went to first-choice families and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 90% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Camden.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Camden schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, London, NW3 3DS
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Camden
- Pupils on roll
- 174 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 3 February 2026
Strengths
- “This is a warm, nurturing and community-centred school where pupils' wellbeing is of utmost importance.”
- “Staff ensure that pupils are happy, safe and able to enjoy and succeed in their learning, regardless of their background or barriers to learning and/or wellbeing.”
- “As a result, pupils, in particular disadvantaged pupils, achieve well here and make positive progress from their starting points.”
To improve
- “At times, however, standards of pupils' work are not as high in some subjects in the wider curriculum as they are in others.”
- “Sometimes these are for families who take children on holiday during term time, despite the use of penalty fines.”
- “Leaders recognise that the curriculum and teaching in some subjects, such as English, mathematics and science, are better developed than a few subjects in the wider curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 May 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 90% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 32 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 24 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Camden.
- Primrose Hill School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Rhyl Community Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, NW3 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rosary Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity and Saint Silas CofE Primary School, NW1 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fleet Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hawley Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fitzjohn's Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published