The Belham Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · London, Southwark
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.27 miles
Published by the school · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Belham Primary School is a primary school in London, Southwark for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 June 2024. The school has published a last distance offered on its own website for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
The Belham 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 | 0.27 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Free school meal eligibility is 14.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 46.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southwark.
- For Reception 2025 the last distance offered was 0.27 miles, nearer the school than in 2024 and 2022, and the 2025 figure was the shortest of the 4 years.
- Reception 2026 drew 68 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 47 offers went to first-choice families, and 21 first-choice families (31%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- 165 Bellenden Road, London, SE15 4DG
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Southwark
- Pupils on roll
- 385 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this happy and welcoming school.”
- “Staff greet pupils with a warm smile and take time to find out how they are.”
- “This creates a positive start to the day.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes teaching staff do not check sharply enough what pupils know and remember, and this means some pupils develop gaps in their learning.”
- “In 2023, the published outcomes for achievement in mathematics at the end of Year 6 were disappointing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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) | 80% | 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: 68 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.
- St John's and St Clement's Church of England Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged
- Bellenden Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Goose Green Primary and Nursery School 0.3 mi Standards maintained
- Grove Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rye Oak Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St James the Great Roman Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Oliver Goldsmith Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Lyndhurst Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published