The Jenny Hammond Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.303 miles
Published by Waltham Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Jenny Hammond Primary School is a primary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 24 February 2023. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
The Jenny Hammond 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 2025 | 0.303 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 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 2025 lived 0.303 miles away, the 4th shortest of 16 Waltham Forest primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- That 2025 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2024 and nearer than in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 67 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 83% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 19% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Waltham Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Elsham Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 3JH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 388 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to attend this school.”
- “Teachers think carefully about how to enthuse pupils about learning.”
- “They talk enthusiastically about their lessons and what they have learned and remembered.”
To improve
- “In a few instances, though, teachers do not check pupils’ understanding and whether they are building on their previous learning.”
- “This affects how securely pupils grasp and remember the subject content that they are taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 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) | 83% | 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: 67 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 Waltham Forest.
- Downsell Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Mayville Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Davies Lane Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Newport School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- George Tomlinson Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dawlish Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gwyn Jones Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Riverley Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published