Brooklands Primary School
General Information
- Address: Medebourne Close, Casterbridge Road, London, SE3 9AB – View on map
- Phone: 02088528210
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Wilkinson- Tabi
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 36 families put it first for 30 places – 12 for every 10 places. 72% of them were offered a place. 4 of the 30 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 6 · 2024 9 · 2025 7 · 2026 12
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 40
- % eligible for free school meals: 18.4%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (similar to the Greenwich average)
- English as an additional language: 17% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 37.3% a year (Greenwich 17.6%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 53% moved to another school, 47% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Greenwich: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Greenwich, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 61% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 21% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points below the Greenwich average (72%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 69% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 69%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 93% · Writing 75% · Maths 64% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 79%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 102
- Based on: 28 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 56th of 62 junior and primary schools in the area
- =53St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary School63%
- =53Woodhill Primary School63%
- =56Brooklands Primary School61%
- =56Invicta Primary School61%
- #58Discovery Primary School59%
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11th of 45 primary schools in Greenwich for Ofsted rating
- #9Bishop John Robinson Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #10Boxgrove Primary SchoolGood
- #11Brooklands Primary SchoolGood
- #12Charlton Manor Primary SchoolGood
- #13Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,522 (2024-25)
54th of 62 primary schools in Greenwich for spending per pupil
- #52South Rise Primary School£7,628
- #53Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School£7,553
- #54Brooklands Primary School£7,522
- #55Bannockburn Primary School£7,342
- #56Foxfield Primary School£7,307
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