Mockup — proposed redesign of /compare. All figures are live production data for three real schools (2024/25 results, 2026/27 admissions round). England averages for test results are official DfE figures; other benchmarks are state-school averages computed from our dataset.

# Compare schools

Three schools side by side — inspection results, academics, admissions and community, each anchored against the England average so you can tell at a glance what's typical and what stands out.

Barclay Primary School
Waltham Forest · Academy
Elmhurst Primary School
Newham · Academy
Plumcroft Primary School
Greenwich · Community school

## At a glance

The short version — each row below is explained in its own section further down.

Latest Ofsted inspection
OutstandingInspected Oct 2021
OutstandingInspected Oct 2021
Report card illustrative
4 areas Strong standard 2 areas Expected standard Attendance & behaviour: Attention needed
Safeguarding met · Nov 2025
Children reaching the expected standard ?
87% Above England averageEngland average 62%
92% Above England averageEngland average 62%
79% Above England averageEngland average 62%
Getting a place
97% of first choices offeredNamed on 457 forms · 180 places
73% of first choices offeredNamed on 342 forms · 120 places
All first choices offeredNamed on 185 forms · 80 places
Size
1,273 pupilsMuch larger than average
980 pupilsMuch larger than average
1,056 pupilsMuch larger than average

## Ofsted inspection

Ofsted is the schools inspectorate. It stopped giving a single overall grade in September 2024; inspections between then and November 2025 kept the area-by-area judgements without an overall grade, and from November 2025 new inspections produce a report card rating each area of school life on a five-point scale (Exceptional · Strong standard · Expected standard · Attention needed · Urgent improvement). A report card and an older overall grade aren't directly comparable — Plumcroft's report card below is an illustrative example of the new format, as no school in our dataset has one yet. (Ofsted's "Expected standard" rating is unrelated to the KS2 "expected standard" test measure further down this page.)

Result
OutstandingOverall grade (older-style inspection)
OutstandingOverall grade (older-style inspection)
Report card illustrativeNew-style inspection — no overall grade is given
Inspected
7 Oct 2021 4+ years ago
6 Oct 2021 4+ years ago
14 Nov 2025
Judgement detail ?
We don't hold area-by-area detail for this inspection — see Barclay's Ofsted page for the full report.
Quality of educationOutstanding
Behaviour & attitudesOutstanding
Personal developmentOutstanding
Leadership & managementOutstanding
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum & teachingStrong standard
Attendance & behaviourAttention needed
Personal developmentStrong standard
InclusionExpected standard
Leadership & governanceStrong standard
Early yearsExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Ofsted page ?
Barclay's Ofsted page →
Elmhurst's Ofsted page →
Plumcroft's Ofsted page →

## How children do academically

Results from national tests and teacher assessments at the end of Year 6 (2024/25) — writing is assessed by teachers, not tested. Each line runs from 0–100%; the grey tick marks the England average, so dots to its right are above average.

More measures — grammar, punctuation & spelling, science, average scaled scores

The strips show the 100–120 window of the full 80–120 scaled-score range; 100 is the expected standard, and the strip widens if a school averages below it. England ticks for grammar, punctuation & spelling and science aren't in our dataset yet, and the scaled-score England ticks are indicative — official DfE figures for all of these will be loaded before launch.

Trend, 2015/16 to 2024/25 ?
Variable, recently 87%
Consistently high
Improving since 2022/23
Children from lower-income families ?
86% Well above the 46% state-school average
93% Well above the 46% state-school average
72% Above the 46% state-school average

## Getting a place

From the most recent admissions round (September 2026 entry). "First choice" means families who ranked the school top of their application form — officially a "first preference". Schools never see your ranking: places are decided only by the school's admission criteria, so listing a school lower down never hurts your chances. These are National Offer Day offers — waiting lists and appeals can change the final intake.

Interest in the school ?
Named on 457 forms · 180 places
Named on 342 forms · 120 places
Named on 185 forms · 80 places
First-choice families offered a place
97%
73% Over 1 in 4 first choices missed out
100%
What this means
Nearly every family who put Barclay first got a place.
More first-choice applications than places — check the school's admission criteria (for most non-faith primaries, distance decides).
Every family who put Plumcroft first got a place.

## Who goes there

The school's community, from the latest school census (2025/26). England averages are shown for context — there's no "right" number here.

Pupils on roll
1,273 1,260 places — at or above capacity
980 of 996 places (98% full)
1,056 1,050 places — at or above capacity
Girls / boys
51% / 49%
48% / 52%
51% / 49%
Free school meals ?
26% About the state-school average
25% About the state-school average
30% A little above average
English as an additional language ?
62%
84%
20%
Extra learning support (SEN) ?
6%
8%
28% Well above average
Faith character
None
None
None
Ages · nursery
3–11 · has a nursery
3–11 · has a nursery
3–11 · has a nursery
Run by
Lion Academy Trust
New Vision Trust
Greenwich council

## Explore trends

The full year-by-year explorer — every measure from the current compare page lives on here, grouped, each with its England-average line. Three measures are wired up in this mockup; the rest are shown to convey the catalogue.

Year-by-year trends, 2015/16 to 2024/25
Measure:
School lines break where a year isn't in our dataset.

Sources: DfE Compare School Performance (KS2 results), Ofsted inspection outcomes, DfE school admissions data, school census — all from datasets SchoolCompare already collects. England averages for test results are the official DfE national figures; benchmarks for free school meals, language, SEN, school size and disadvantaged pupils' results are computed across all state schools in our dataset. Following DfE practice, figures based on 5 or fewer pupils are suppressed and shown as "no data". This is a static mockup: tooltips and "Add school" are illustrative, and Plumcroft's Ofsted report card is a made-up example of the November 2025 format (its real latest inspection is Good, June 2023) — no school in our dataset has a report card yet.