Ashmead Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Lewisham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.41 miles
Published by Lewisham Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ashmead 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 24 November 2022. Lewisham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Ashmead 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 | 0.41 mi |
| 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.41 miles away, the 5th shortest of 19 Lewisham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 and 2018, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 7 years.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 83 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families, so 25 first-choice families (30%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Ashmead Road, Deptford, London, SE8 4DX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Lewisham
- Pupils on roll
- 390 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school and are enthusiastic about learning.”
- “Pupils are proud of their achievements.”
- “Many pupils said that everyone is accepted at the school.”
To improve
- “In some subjects for which leaders have not identified clearly the most important knowledge for pupils to know and remember, the curriculum sometimes covers too much content.”
- “Where this is the case, pupils are not helped as successfully to build cumulative knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 February 2023 (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) | 75% | 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: 83 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- St Stephen's CofE Primary School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oak Gardens Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Myatt Garden Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Tidemill Academy 0.6 mi Good
- St James's Hatcham Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good
- John Stainer Community Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Childeric Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published