Harrington Hill Primary School
General Information
- Address: Mount Pleasant Lane, London, E5 9JG – View on map
- Phone: 02088067275
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rebecca Kennedy
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 13 families put it first for 14 places – 9 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 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 110
- % eligible for free school meals: 55.3%
- Pupil mix: 9 in 10 (more mixed than the Hackney average)
- English as an additional language: 47% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.5% a year (Hackney 21.1%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 39% moved to another school, 61% 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 Hackney: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (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 Hackney, 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: 6.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 26.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Autism 12 places · 10 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 12.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 17 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 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: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points below the Hackney average (78%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 74% against an expected 61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 74%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 76% · Writing 72% · Maths 66% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 103
- Based on: 29 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: 43rd of 50 junior and primary schools in the area
- =39St John and St James CofE Primary School69%
- #42Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School68%
- #43Harrington Hill Primary School66%
- #44Shoreditch Park Primary School63%
- =45Nightingale Primary School61%
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25th of 43 primary schools in Hackney for Ofsted rating
- #23Gainsborough Primary SchoolGood
- #24Halley House SchoolGood
- #25Harrington Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #26Holy Trinity Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #27Hoxton Garden PrimaryGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £12,202 (2024-25)
2nd of 37 primary schools in Hackney for spending per pupil
- #1St Scholastica's Catholic Primary School£12,469
- #2Harrington Hill Primary School£12,202
- #3Simon Marks Jewish Primary School£12,183
- #4St Monica's Catholic Primary School£11,995
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