School Chooser

Mandeville Primary School

Primary · ages 2-11MixedCouncil266 pupilsNursery Free breakfast clubLondonHackney
School Chooser Score
91
Well above
similar schools
Likely range 82 to 96
Out of 100. Better than 98% of the 50 schools most like it. Slipping year on year.
OfstedOutstandingLast Ofsted inspection, February 2024
Reached the expected level at 1178%England 63%
Attendance94.5%England 94.8%
Pupils from low-income families54%Far more than most schools
Places154 spare266 pupils, 420 places
Pupils per teacher15.2School workforce census

Mandeville Primary School is a council school in London for boys and girls aged 2 to 11. It has 266 pupils and room for 420. About 54 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. We give it 91 out of 100. That puts it well above schools like it, ahead of 98% of the 50 schools most like it. Ofsted's last grade was outstanding, back in 2024.

Oswald Street, Hackney, London, E5 0BT020 8986 5249mandeville.hackney.sch.ukMr Marc Thompson associate headAll details

What Ofsted found

Ofsted's last full inspection was on 20 February 2024, back when it gave schools one overall grade. Read the report on Ofsted's website.

Outstanding overall.

TeachingOfsted calls this “quality of education”
Outstanding
BehaviourOfsted calls this “behaviour and attitudes”
Outstanding
WellbeingOfsted calls this “personal development”
Outstanding
LeadershipOfsted calls this “leadership and management”
Outstanding
Early years
Outstanding
Safeguarding
Effective
Yes
Earlier inspections (1)
DateTypeOutcome
15 September 2022UngradedSchool remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next

Results

Year 6 results (SATs), summer 2025

37 children took the tests. Here is how they did against every state primary in England.

Reached the expected level at 1178%
England 63%
Official name: Expected standard in reading, writing and maths
Working above the expected level11%
England 8%
Official name: Higher standard in reading, writing and maths
Reading score107.0
England 105.6
Official name: Reading average scaled score
Maths score103.0
England 104.6
Official name: Maths average scaled score
Trend
Reached the expected level at 11
2017 to 2025
2017: 55%55%20172018: 74%74%20182019: 75%75%20192023: 75%75%20232024: 85%85%20242025: 78%78%2025
Since 2017: +23%Declining overall
All Year 6 measures, year by year
Measure202520242023201920182017HackneyEngland
Pupils tested373448525753
Reached the expected level at 11Expected standard in reading, writing and maths78%85%75%75%74%55%76%63%
Working above the expected levelHigher standard in reading, writing and maths11%12%10%8%9%6%15%8%
Reading scoreReading average scaled score107.0110.0108.0106.0106.0102.0107.1105.6
Maths scoreMaths average scaled score103.0108.0105.0106.0104.0104.0105.8104.6
Grammar and spelling scoreGPS average scaled score104.0106.0106.0107.0107.0107.0106.8105.2
Expected level: readingReading expected standard78%88%83%79%84%62%
Expected level: mathsMaths expected standard81%91%77%88%84%81%
Expected level: writingWriting expected standard (teacher assessed)84%85%83%87%81%85%
Reading progressReading progress score+2.5+1.5+2.1-0.7
Maths progressMaths progress score+1.0+0.6+0.7+1.1
Expected level: low-income pupilsExpected standard, disadvantaged73%86%70%69%65%53%
Expected level: other pupilsExpected standard, non-disadvantaged100%83%91%88%85%59%

There are no progress figures for 2025. That year group missed their Year 2 tests during Covid, so there was no starting point to measure from. Progress figures come back with the December 2026 results. Tests were cancelled altogether in 2020 and 2021.

Does every child do well here?

A good school does well by every child, not just on average. Each row compares two groups of pupils here. The grey marks show the same two groups across England. 2 of the 4 gaps are smaller than the gap across England. When a group has fewer than about ten pupils, its figures jump around a lot from year to year.

At the end of primary school, 2025

Reached the expected level at 11Low-income pupils vs other pupils
73%100%
Gap 27 ptsEngland 21 pts
Reached the expected level at 11Boys vs girls
78%79%
Gap 1 ptsEngland 5 pts
Reached the expected level at 11Pupils learning English vs all pupils
88%78%
Gap 10 ptsEngland 4 pts
Reached the higher level at 11Low-income pupils vs all pupils
7%11%
Gap 4 ptsEngland 5 pts
First groupSecond groupEngland, each group

Low-income means the child has had free school meals at some point in the last six years. A group's figure isn't published when it has fewer than six pupils.

Getting a place

Admissions policy not published.

Plenty of spare places223 pupils for 389 places, 2024/25
57% full

166 places were empty (43% of the total), so almost everyone who applies gets in. Pupil numbers have grown by 4% since 2021/22.

Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Hackney council's admissions booklet, send it to us.

Who goes here

Who a school teaches matters. That is why our score compares it with schools that take in a similar mix of children, not with every school in the country.

Pupils on roll266Census January 2026
Places42063% full
Pupils from low-income families52%54% have had free school meals at some point in the last six years
Pupils learning English44%First language is not English
Pupils getting extra support21%57 pupils with SEN support
Pupils with an EHC plan5%12 pupils with a plan
Average class size25.18 classes, January 2026; England 25.4
Classes with more than 30 pupils25%Infant classes are capped at 30 by law; England 10%
Pupils with extra funding (pupil premium)55%£195,300 extra funding in 2026/27; England 24%
Boys and girls139 / 127
White British pupils13%

Infant classes (Reception to Year 2) average 22.7 pupils (England 25.5); junior classes (Years 3 to 6) average 31.0 (England 27.3).

The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: language and communications needs (37), Moderate learning difficulty (11), emotional and mental health (11), Autistic spectrum disorder (9), Hearing impairment (1).

How the mix of pupils has changed
Census202620252024202320222021
Pupils on roll266275264261251261
Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals52%58%59%59%59%59%
Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language44%48%57%61%62%67%
Pupils getting extra supportSEN support19%17%20%14%15%
Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans6%5%3%4%5%

Attendance and behaviour

In 2024/25 pupils were in school 94.5% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.

Attendance94.5%
England 94.8%
Official name: 100 minus overall absence
Pupils missing a lot of school10.6%
England 12.8%
Official name: Persistent absence
Suspensions per 100 pupils0.02024/25, no permanent exclusions
Missed without permission1.5%of school time, 2024/25
Attendance year by year
Measure2024/252023/242022/232021/222020/212018/19England
Sessions missedOverall absence5.5%4.8%4.8%4.5%2.3%3.5%5.2%
Missed with permissionAuthorised absence4.0%4.4%4.3%4.0%1.9%2.8%
Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence1.5%0.4%0.5%0.5%0.4%0.7%
Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence10.6%6.8%10.3%7.3%1.9%8.5%12.8%
SuspensionsSuspension rate0.00.00.00.00.4
Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions00000

Staff

From the government's count of school staff in November 2025.

Teachers16.7full-time equivalent, 22 people
Pupils per teacher15.2Pupils for every full-time teacher
Fully qualified teachers86%hold qualified teacher status
Teaching assistants10.5full-time equivalent
Average teacher pay£69,296
Teachers who left in the year34%2024/25, for any reason including retirement
Vacancies0
Sick days per teacher1.12024/25

The area around the school

Crimes within 500 m68812 months to June 2026, mostly violence and sexual offences
Local crime rate92 per 1,000 peopleabout the England average
Typical house price£592,000Hackney
Nearest bus stop20 mMandeville Primary School, 14 stops within 500 m

Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.

Nearby schools

The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.

Well aboveAboveIn lineBelowWell belowNot scored
SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Kingsmead Primary SchoolCouncil490 m233Outstanding 202396Compare
Daubeney Primary SchoolCouncil500 m382Good 202376Compare
Rushmore Primary SchoolCouncil550 m455Good 202292Compare
Millfields Community SchoolCouncil800 m634Good 202470Compare
Southwold Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles341Outstanding 201998Compare
The Olive School, HackneyFree school0.8 miles629No overall grade 202596Compare
St John and St James CofE Primary SchoolChurch of England0.8 miles218Outstanding 202492Compare
Berger Primary SchoolCouncil0.8 miles414Not inspected74Compare

Compared with schools like it

Our score compares Mandeville Primary School with the 50 schools in England whose pupils are most like its own. We match on family income, how many children are learning English, special needs, the neighbourhood, the size of the school and how it admits pupils. Those 50 schools are dotted all over the country, so we don't list them. What matters is where this school sits among them.

Beats98%of schools with a similar mix of pupils
Near the very top of its group. Its score of 91 is 56 points above the typical school in the group.
0Lowest of the group 2 · middle 35 · highest 98100

Nearby schools with a similar mix of pupils that score higher

Of those 50 schools, these are within 25 km and score at least five points more than Mandeville Primary School, nearest first. A school with the same kind of pupils and a higher score is the fairest sign that it gets more out of them.

SchoolTypeDistancePupilsOfstedScore
Southwold Primary SchoolCouncil0.7 miles341Outstanding 201998Compare

How the score was worked out

The score is out of 100. A 91 means that once everything below is added up, this school comes out ahead of 91% of primary schools in England. Results bounce around from year to year, especially in small schools, so we also show a likely range: 82 to 96. Every part is judged against schools with a similar mix of pupils. For small schools we pull each part towards the group average, so one unusual year can't swing the score too far.

What we looked atHow much it countsAgainst schools like itEffect on the scoreBased on
Results over three years25%in line
+0.08
2025, 2024 and 2023 results; 37 pupils
Ofsted inspection20%well above
+0.43
Ofsted grade, 2.6 years old
Progress pupils make20%above
+0.08
DfE progress measure; 37 pupils
Direction of travel over five years10%below
-0.06
results and attendance falling year on year
Attendance and behaviour10%in line
0.00
2024/25; 207 pupils
Results, allowing for the mix of pupils10%well above
+0.19
Attainment relative to schools with a similar intake; 37 pupils
What parents say0%no data

Worked out on 13 September 2026 (method v1). Read how the score works, including every weight and the checks we run. Think a number is wrong? Tell us.

Questions parents ask

Is Mandeville Primary School a good school?

Yes, going by the figures. Mandeville Primary School scores 91 out of 100. That is well above schools that take in a similar mix of pupils, and ahead of 98% of the 50 schools most like it in England. The score could fairly be anywhere from 82 to 96, so a few points either way between schools doesn't mean much. Its results have been slipping over the last five years.

What is Mandeville Primary School's Ofsted rating?

Ofsted rated Mandeville Primary School outstanding at its last full inspection on 20 February 2024.

How good are Mandeville Primary School's SATs results?

In summer 2025, 78% of Year 6 children reached the expected level in reading, writing and maths. Across England it was 63%. 11% went further and reached the higher level.

How many pupils does Mandeville Primary School have?

266 pupils aged 2 to 11 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 420 places, so it is 63% full.

Is Mandeville Primary School oversubscribed?

Probably not. 166 places were empty in 2024/25 (43% of the total), so most families who apply get a place.

What is attendance like at Mandeville Primary School?

Pupils were in school 94.5% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 11% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.

How big are the classes at Mandeville Primary School?

The average class had 25.1 pupils in January 2026. Across England it was 25.4. 25% of classes had more than 30 pupils.

Does Mandeville Primary School have a breakfast club?

Yes. It is on the government's free breakfast club programme, so every pupil can have a free half-hour breakfast club before school.

These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.

Contact and details

Address
Oswald Street, Hackney, London, E5 0BT
Telephone
020 8986 5249
Website
www.mandeville.hackney.sch.uk
Associate Head
Mr Marc Thompson
Free breakfast club
Yes: on the government's programme, so every pupil can have a free half-hour breakfast club before school (listed since September 2026).
Type of school
Council school (Community school, local authority maintained schools)
Phase
Primary school, ages 2-11, with nursery
Gender
Mixed
Local authority
Hackney
Ward
King's Park
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
URN
100261 · LAESTAB 2042896 · UKPRN 10078015

Where these figures come from