Dulwich Wood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · London, Southwark
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.74 miles
Published by Southwark Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dulwich Wood Primary School is a primary school in London, Southwark for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 July 2022. Southwark has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Dulwich Wood 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 | 0.74 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.74 miles from the school, the 3rd longest of 10 Southwark primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was further out than in 2025 and about the same as in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In Reception 2026, there were 68 first-choice applications for 60 offers: 51 offers went to first-choice families and 17 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southwark schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bowen Drive, Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8NS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Southwark
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 July 2022
Strengths
- “The pupils’ happiness and excitement are seen and felt as they enter the school gates.”
- “Their exuberance brings life and energy to this school.”
- “Pupils are safe because they show kindness towards each other, and the staff are ‘warm, welcoming, and caring’.”
To improve
- “Opportunities to deepen children’s understanding and learning are not maximised.”
- “This is because staff sometimes miss opportunities to ask probing questions or prompt children in deepening their thinking or understanding.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 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) | 70% | 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: 68 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 51 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 Southwark.
- Dulwich Hamlet Junior School 1.3 mi Outstanding
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Goodrich Community Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dulwich Village Church of England Infants' School 1.4 mi Outstanding
- Heber Primary School 1.5 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Judith Kerr Primary School 1.5 mi Good
- Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich 1.6 mi School remains Outstanding
- Bessemer Grange Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published