Montbelle Primary School
General Information
- Address: Milverton Way, Eltham, London, SE9 3EY – View on map
- Phone: 02088573909
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs E Geden
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 29 families put it first for 31 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 8 of the 31 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 97
- % eligible for free school meals: 28.5%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Greenwich average)
- English as an additional language: 23% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.8% a year (Greenwich 17.6%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 22% moved to another school, 78% 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: 5.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 13 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 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: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points below the Greenwich average (72%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 63% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 63%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 70% · Maths 78% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 62%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 105
- Based on: 60 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 50th of 62 junior and primary schools in the area
- =48St Margaret's Church of England Primary School67%
- =50Christ Church Church of England Primary School65%
- =50Montbelle Primary School65%
- =50Windrush Charlton Primary School65%
- =53Linton Mead Primary School63%
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29th of 45 primary schools in Greenwich for Ofsted rating
- #27Linton Mead Primary SchoolGood
- #28Meridian Primary SchoolGood
- #29Montbelle Primary SchoolGood
- #30Morden Mount Primary SchoolGood
- #31Mulgrave Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,270 (2024-25)
34th of 62 primary schools in Greenwich for spending per pupil
- #32Bishop John Robinson Church of England Primary School£8,303
- #33Boxgrove Primary School£8,279
- #34Montbelle Primary School£8,270
- #35Rockliffe Manor Primary School£8,218
- #36Haimo Primary School£8,208
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