Cooper's Lane Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Lewisham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Lewisham Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cooper's Lane Primary School is a primary school in London, Lewisham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 April 2022. Lewisham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Cooper's Lane 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 15 of the 39 other Lewisham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places had run out, with a last Reception distance published, in 5 of the 6 earlier years, and that distance swung sharply, most of all from 2020 to 2021.
- Reception 2026 entry drew 74 first-choice applications for 82 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 24 of the 169 applications (14%) came from outside Lewisham.
- There are 22.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Lewisham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Lewisham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Pragnell Road, London, SE12 0LF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Lewisham
- Pupils on roll
- 646 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school and would recommend it to others.”
- “They are happy and safe, and have a number of adults they could speak to if they were worried or upset.”
- “Parents are overwhelmingly positive about the school.”
To improve
- “There is currently not a shared approach to assessing pupils in history.”
- “Pupils sometimes struggle to remember the correct subject-specific vocabulary when discussing their work.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 June 2022 (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) | 62% | 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: 74 first-preference applications, 82 offers in total, 74 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 Lewisham.
- Haberdashers' Knights Primary 0.4 mi Good
- Baring Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Forster Park Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Launcelot Primary School and Nursery 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Marvels Lane Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Good Shepherd RC School 0.9 mi Not judged
- St Winifred's RC Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Torridon Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published