Hartley Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hartley Avenue, East Ham, London, E6 1NT – View on map
- Phone: 02084722523
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Leilah McClay
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 25 families put it first for 28 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 8 · 2024 7 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 204
- % eligible for free school meals: 42.5%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (similar to the Newham average)
- English as an additional language: 88% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.4% a year (Newham 14.5%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 16% moved to another school, 84% 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 Newham: 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: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (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 Newham, 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: 8.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 30.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 21 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points below the Newham average (76%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 58% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 78% · Writing 75% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 78%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 104
- Based on: 83 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 54th of 66 junior and primary schools in the area
- =50St James' CofE Primary School67%
- #53St Joachim's Catholic Primary School66%
- =54Hartley Primary School65%
- =54Oasis School 2165%
- =54Upton Cross Primary School65%
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28th of 52 primary schools in Newham for Ofsted rating
- #26Ellen Wilkinson Primary SchoolGood
- #27Grange Primary SchoolGood
- #28Hartley Primary SchoolGood
- #29Maryland Primary SchoolGood
- #30Nelson Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,075 (2024-25)
51st of 62 primary schools in Newham for spending per pupil
- #49Hallsville Primary School£8,257
- #50Portway Primary School£8,110
- #51Hartley Primary School£8,075
- #52Essex Primary School£8,062
- #53St Stephen's Primary School£7,976
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