Shalom Noam Primary School
General Information
- Address: East Road, Edgware, HA8 0AJ – View on map
- Phone: 02089089491
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Deborah Danan
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 35 families put it first for 29 places – 12 for every 10 places. 83% of them were offered a place. 5 of the 29 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 13 · 2025 11 · 2026 12
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Jewish
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 2
- % eligible for free school meals: 0.9%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (less mixed than the Barnet average)
- English as an additional language: 27% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.3% a year (Barnet 18.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 20% moved to another school, 80% 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 Barnet: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 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 Barnet, 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: 4.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 16 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or 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: 74% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 16% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Barnet average (72%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 81% against an expected 71%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 81%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 87% · Writing 84% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 87%
- Average test scores: reading 110, maths 107
- Based on: 31 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: 46th of 84 junior and primary schools in the area
- =44Garden Suburb Junior School75%
- =44Rosh Pinah Primary School75%
- #46Shalom Noam Primary School74%
- =47Church Hill School73%
- =47Manorside Primary School73%
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47th of 63 primary schools in Barnet for Ofsted rating
- #45Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #46Saracens BroadfieldsGood
- #47Shalom Noam Primary SchoolGood
- #48St Catherine's RC SchoolGood
- #49St John's CofE Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,421 (2024-25)
15th of 75 primary schools in Barnet for spending per pupil
- #13Hasmonean Primary School£9,599
- #14Fairway Primary School and Children's Centre£9,440
- #15Shalom Noam Primary School£9,421
- #16Beit Shvidler Primary School£9,409
- #17The Orion Primary School£9,361
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