John Scurr Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · London, Tower Hamlets
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.23 miles
Published by London Borough of Tower Hamlets · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2025–2026 (miles)
John Scurr Primary School is a primary school in London, Tower Hamlets for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2023. Tower Hamlets has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
John Scurr 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 | 1.23 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.38 mi |
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 1.23 miles away, the 3rd longest of 11 Tower Hamlets primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025, and the middle figure for those 11 schools was 0.36 miles.
- In 2026 Reception entry, 56 first-choice applications for 56 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Reading, writing and maths: 72% met the expected standard in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Tower Hamlets.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Tower Hamlets schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Cephas Street, Stepney Green, London, E1 4AX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Pupils on roll
- 494 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 March 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders are ambitious for pupils and their future career possibilities.”
- “They guide pupils to be respectful, resilient, resourceful, reflective and ready to learn.”
- “Pupils demonstrated these values in the way that they behaved, and the pride with which they spoke about their school.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, where new curriculum improvements may be recent, the curriculum is not as equally strongly embedded.”
- “It is not as clear how different areas within the curriculum connect to build pupils’ knowledge over time.”
- “However, leaders have not ensured that children learn key knowledge and skills throughout their time in Nursery and Reception.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 May 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) | 72% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 56 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 Tower Hamlets.
- Stepney Park Primary School 0.2 mi Good
- Bangabandhu Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Stewart Headlam Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding
- Hague Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Globe Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Thomas Buxton Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Osmani Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Bonner Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published