Chalkhill Primary School
General Information
- Address: Barnhill Road, Brent, Wembley, HA9 9YP – View on map
- Phone: 02089044508
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Rayno Cloete
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Furthest place offered from: Not distance-based that year - not oversubscribed in 2026, places were available From the council's own Sept 2026 admissions data - not a fixed catchment boundary, and no guarantee for future years, since it shifts with demand each year.
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 30 families put it first for 37 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 7 · 2025 6 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 136
- % eligible for free school meals: 32.3%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Brent average)
- English as an additional language: 83% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.7% a year (Brent 20.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 26% moved to another school, 74% 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 Brent: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 8 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 9 (0.3 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 Brent, 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: 6.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 21.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 66% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points below the Brent average (71%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 65% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 65%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 76% · Writing 75% · Maths 76% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 76%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 59 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: 35th of 54 junior and primary schools in the area
- =31Elsley Primary School68%
- =31Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School68%
- #35Chalkhill Primary School66%
- #36Kilburn Grange School65%
- =37Donnington Primary School64%
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11th of 40 primary schools in Brent for Ofsted rating
- #9Braintcroft E-ACT Primary AcademyGood
- #10Brentfield Primary SchoolGood
- #11Chalkhill Primary SchoolGood
- #12Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #13Donnington Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,009 (2024-25)
21st of 48 primary schools in Brent for spending per pupil
- #19Harlesden Primary School£8,032
- #20Mitchell Brook Primary School£8,030
- #21Chalkhill Primary School£8,009
- #22Avigdor Hirsch Torah Temimah Primary School£8,005
- #23Wembley Primary School£8,001
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