Selwyn Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.005 miles
Published by Waltham Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Selwyn Primary School is a primary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 10 May 2022. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Selwyn 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 | 1.005 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
- In 2024/25, 87% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Waltham Forest that have results.
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.005 miles away, the 2nd longest of 16 Waltham Forest primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance, further than in 2024 and in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 103 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 88 offers went to first-choice families and 15 first-choice families were not offered a place.
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
- 105 Selwyn Avenue, London, E4 9NE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 721 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 10 May 2022
Strengths
- “Selwyn is a place where the school’s five ‘Cs’, care, courtesy, commitment, consideration and cooperation, are put into action.”
- “Working relationships between adults and pupils, and between the pupils, are very positive.”
- “Older pupils share their ideas and give their views readily.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 July 2022 (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) | 87% | 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: 103 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 88 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.
- Handsworth Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Ainslie Wood Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorpe Hall Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chapel End Junior Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakhill Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Salisbury Manor Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Walthamstow Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published