Miles Coverdale Primary School
General Information
- Address: Coverdale Road, Shepherds Bush, London, W12 8JJ – View on map
- Phone: 02087435847
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Taranum Baig
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 82
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.6%
- Pupil mix: 9 in 10 (similar to the Hammersmith and Fulham average)
- English as an additional language: 45% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 9% a year (Hammersmith and Fulham 26.1%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 48% moved to another school, 52% 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. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Hammersmith and Fulham: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.1 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: 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 Hammersmith and Fulham, 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: 6.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 16.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
SEN Unit
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 18.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 12 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Outstanding 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 73% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 37% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 4 percentage points below the Hammersmith and Fulham average (77%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 81% against an expected 60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 81%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 80% · Writing 93% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 109
- Based on: 30 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 22nd of 35 junior and primary schools in the area
- =19Wendell Park Primary School76%
- =22Fulham Primary School73%
- =22Miles Coverdale Primary School73%
- #24Larmenier & Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School72%
- #25St Augustine's RC Primary School71%
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6th of 27 primary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham for Ofsted rating
- #4Fulham Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #5Good Shepherd RC Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #6Miles Coverdale Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #7St John's Walham Green Church of England Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #8St Peter's Primary SchoolOutstanding
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £11,040 (2024-25)
10th of 35 primary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham for spending per pupil
- #8Avonmore Primary School£11,515
- #9Sulivan Primary School£11,060
- #10Miles Coverdale Primary School£11,040
- #11Wormholt Park Primary School£10,868
- #12Addison Primary School£10,829
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