Sherington Primary School
General Information
- Address: Wyndcliff Road, Charlton, London, SE7 7JP – View on map
- Phone: 02088585497
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Hannah Freeman
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 84 families put it first for 60 places – 14 for every 10 places. 68% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 12 · 2024 12 · 2025 12 · 2026 14
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 65
- % eligible for free school meals: 15.9%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Greenwich average)
- English as an additional language: 29% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 26.4% a year (Greenwich 17.6%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 34% moved to another school, 66% 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: 3.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 5.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 24 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 20 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 13 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 8 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 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: 84% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 21% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points above the Greenwich average (72%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 81% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 81%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 91% · Writing 91% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 91%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 108
- Based on: 57 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: 6th of 62 junior and primary schools in the area
- =3Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School87%
- #5Wingfield Primary School85%
- #6Sherington Primary School84%
- =7Eltham Church of England Primary School83%
- =7Morden Mount Primary School83%
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35th of 45 primary schools in Greenwich for Ofsted rating
- #33Plumcroft Primary SchoolGood
- #34Rockliffe Manor Primary SchoolGood
- #35Sherington Primary SchoolGood
- #36South Rise Primary SchoolGood
- #37St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,857 (2024-25)
44th of 62 primary schools in Greenwich for spending per pupil
- #42St Peter's Catholic Primary School£7,983
- #43St Thomas A Becket Roman Catholic Primary School£7,940
- #44Sherington Primary School£7,857
- #45Windrush Charlton Primary School£7,822
- #46St Thomas More Catholic Primary School£7,776
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