St Matthew's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Enfield
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Enfield Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Matthew's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Enfield for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 July 2023. Enfield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St Matthew's CofE 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 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 62% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Enfield.
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as at 50 of the 58 other Enfield primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 19.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Enfield.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Enfield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- St Matthew's C of E Primary School, South Street, Enfield, EN3 4LA
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Enfield
- Pupils on roll
- 195 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and kept safe at St Matthew’s.”
- “They enjoy warm and trusting relationships with each other and the adults who know them well.”
- “This is a small school where pupils benefit from a strong sense of community underpinned by an embedded Christian ethos and values.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the important knowledge, vocabulary and skills leaders expect pupils to learn have not been as clearly identified.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not develop as deep an understanding of the core ideas they will need for future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 September 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) | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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 Enfield.
- Alma Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Southbury Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingfisher Hall Primary Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Delta Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Galliard Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Houndsfield Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published