Alfred Salter Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Southwark
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.79 miles
Published by Southwark Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alfred Salter Primary School is a primary school in London, Southwark for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2024. Southwark has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Alfred Salter 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 | 0.79 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
- In 2026 Reception entry, the last child offered a place lived 0.79 miles away, the 2nd longest of 10 Southwark primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2 of the 3 years with a published outcome: 2024, 2025 and 2026.
- In 2026 Reception entry, 48 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- The school has 25.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southwark.
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
- Quebec Way, Rotherhithe, London, SE16 7LP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Southwark
- Pupils on roll
- 403 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 27 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are delighted to be a part of this school.”
- “They look forward to their learning each day.”
- “They particularly enjoy sharing the school’s large playground with their peers.”
To improve
- “However, the gaps in a few pupils’ learning, including some disadvantaged pupils, are not always addressed quickly enough because of their lower rates of attendance.”
- “In a few instances, however, some pupils struggle to put letter sounds together when reading longer words.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 July 2024 (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) | 73% | 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: 48 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 43 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.
- St John's Roman Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged
- Redriff Primary, City of London Academy 0.3 mi Outstanding
- Albion Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Peter Hills with St Mary's and St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Rotherhithe Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Southwark Park Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Riverside Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published