Bessemer Grange Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Southwark
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.63 miles
Published by Southwark Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bessemer Grange 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 23 May 2024. Southwark has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bessemer Grange 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 | 0.63 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 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.63 miles away, the 5th longest of 10 Southwark primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 51 first-choice applications for 60 offers: 47 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- 57 of the 216 applications (26%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Southwark, and 17 offers went to them.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 2 of the 3 years with a published Reception outcome.
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
- Dylways, London, SE5 8HP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Southwark
- Pupils on roll
- 515 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils delight in coming to this school.”
- “They eagerly anticipate the learning experiences that each new day brings.”
- “Pupils said that the adults in school do lots to make them feel safe.”
To improve
- “In a few instances, pupils are given too much information at once.”
- “This can make it difficult for them to retain and apply what they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 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) | 78% | 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: 51 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 47 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 Village Church of England Infants' School 0.5 mi Outstanding
- Goose Green Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Judith Kerr Primary School 0.5 mi Good
- Grove Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Harris Primary Academy East Dulwich 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding
- Dulwich Hamlet Junior School 0.6 mi Outstanding
- Heber Primary School 0.7 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St John's and St Clement's Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged