Area guide · Greenwich
Living in Greenwich with children
Greenwich, Greenwich. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 288,117 people in 113,688 households; 32.3% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
86schools in Greenwich
£580ktypical semi, 12 months
113crimes a year per 1,000 people
87%gigabit broadband
Schools
86 schools: 62 state primary, 15 state secondary, 1 sixth form or college, 8 privateGreenwich on the schools map →Primary: expected standard, three-year average to 2024/25 (DfE) · red mark: Greenwich 72%Ofsted
Secondary: grade 5+ English and maths, 2023/24 to 2025/26, weighted by cohort (DfE) · red mark: Greenwich 50%Ofsted
Every school in Greenwich, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (62)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 1% · 1st in Greenwich | — |
| Wingfield Primary School | Outstanding | Top 1% · 2nd in Greenwich | 0.41 miles (2026) |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 3rd in Greenwich | — |
| Foxfield Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 4th in Greenwich | 0.424 miles (2026) |
| Sherington Primary School | Good | Top 5% · 5th in Greenwich | 0.347 miles (2026) |
| Deansfield Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 6th in Greenwich | 0.746 miles (2026) |
| Meridian Primary School | Good | Top 5% · 7th in Greenwich | 0.325 miles (2026) |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 5% · 8th in Greenwich | — |
| Conway Primary School | School remains Good | Top 10% · 9th in Greenwich | 1.142 miles (2025) |
| Eltham Church of England Primary School | Good | Top 10% · 10th in Greenwich | — |
| Notre Dame Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 10% · 11th in Greenwich | — |
| Rockliffe Manor Primary School | Improved significantly | Top 10% · 12th in Greenwich | 0.489 miles (2026) |
| Boxgrove Primary School | School remains Good | Top 10% · 13th in Greenwich | 3.75 miles (2025) |
| Alderwood Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 10% · 14th in Greenwich | 1.788 miles (2026) |
| Halstow Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 10% · 15th in Greenwich | 0.374 miles (2026) |
| Horn Park Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 16th in Greenwich | 8.445 miles (2026) |
| Brooklands Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 17th in Greenwich | 0.636 miles (2026) |
| Fossdene Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 18th in Greenwich | 2.486 miles (2025) |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School, Shooters Hill | Good | Top 25% · 19th in Greenwich | 0.45 miles (2026) |
| Thorntree Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 20th in Greenwich | 0.272 miles (2026) |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 21st in Greenwich | — |
| Bannockburn Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 22nd in Greenwich | 3.895 miles (2025) |
| Ealdham Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 23rd in Greenwich | 1.935 miles (2025) |
| St Thomas A Becket Roman Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 24th in Greenwich | — |
| Hawksmoor School | Good | Top 25% · 25th in Greenwich | 3.465 miles (2025) |
| St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 26th in Greenwich | — |
| Greenslade Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 27th in Greenwich | 1.063 miles (2026) |
| Cardwell Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 28th in Greenwich | 0.483 miles (2025) |
| Cherry Orchard Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 25% · 29th in Greenwich | 0.904 miles (2025) |
| Kidbrooke Park Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 30th in Greenwich | 4.888 miles (2025) |
| Gordon Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 31st in Greenwich | 0.967 miles (2025) |
| Mulgrave Primary School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 25% · 32nd in Greenwich | 1.929 miles (2025) |
| Plumcroft Primary School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 25% · 33rd in Greenwich | — |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 34th in Greenwich | — |
| Greenacres Primary School and Language Impairment Unit | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 35th in Greenwich | 0.967 miles (2025) |
| Montbelle Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 36th in Greenwich | 1.02 miles (2025) |
| James Wolfe Primary School and Centre for the Deaf | School remains Good | Top 25% · 37th in Greenwich | 3.226 miles (2025) |
| Discovery Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 38th in Greenwich | 0.514 miles (2026) |
| Bishop John Robinson Church of England Primary School | School remains Good (Concerns) | Top 25% · 39th in Greenwich | 0.725 miles (2025) |
| Invicta Primary School | Good | Top half · 40th in Greenwich | — |
| Henwick Primary School | Good | Top half · 41st in Greenwich | 1.247 miles (2025) |
| Eglinton Primary School | Outstanding | Top half · 42nd in Greenwich | 1.533 miles (2025) |
| Heronsgate Primary School | Outstanding | Top half · 43rd in Greenwich | 3.111 miles (2023) |
| Morden Mount Primary School | Good | Top half · 44th in Greenwich | 0.493 miles (2025) |
| De Lucy Primary School | Good | Top half · 45th in Greenwich | 4.973 miles (2025) |
| Haimo Primary School | Good | Top half · 46th in Greenwich | 2.036 miles (2025) |
| Alexander McLeod Primary School | Outstanding | Top half · 47th in Greenwich | 1.301 miles (2026) |
| Millennium Primary School | Good | Top half · 48th in Greenwich | 0.516 miles (2025) |
| South Rise Primary School | Improved significantly | Top half · 49th in Greenwich | 1.076 miles (2025) |
| Nightingale Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top half · 50th in Greenwich | 0.861 miles (2025) |
| Windrush Thamesmead Primary School | Outstanding | Top half · 51st in Greenwich | 0.716 miles (2026) |
| St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top half · 52nd in Greenwich | — |
| Timbercroft Primary School | School remains Good | Top half · 53rd in Greenwich | 0.587 miles (2025) |
| Middle Park Primary School | Good | Top half · 54th in Greenwich | 3.825 miles (2025) |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top half · 55th in Greenwich | 0.99 miles (2025) |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Good | Top half · 56th in Greenwich | — |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | Good | Lower half · 57th in Greenwich | — |
| Linton Mead Primary School | Good | Lower half · 58th in Greenwich | 0.713 miles (2025) |
| Charlton Manor Primary School | School remains Good | Lower half · 59th in Greenwich | 3.605 miles (2025) |
| Woodhill Primary School | Good | Lower half · 61st in Greenwich | 3.831 miles (2025) |
| Wyborne Primary School | School remains Good | Lower half · 62nd in Greenwich | 9.912 miles (2025) |
| Windrush Charlton Primary School | — | — | 1.599 miles (2025) |
State secondary schools (15)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ark Greenwich Free School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 1st in Greenwich | 0.662 miles (2026) |
| St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School | Good | Top 10% · 2nd in Greenwich | — |
| Leigh Academy Blackheath | Outstanding | Top 25% · 3rd in Greenwich | — |
| Eltham Hill School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 25% · 4th in Greenwich | 1.635 miles (2026) |
| Harris Academy Greenwich | Outstanding | Top half · 5th in Greenwich | — |
| St Ursula's Convent School | Ofsted report card | Top half · 7th in Greenwich | — |
| Leigh Academy Halley | Ofsted report card | Top half · 8th in Greenwich | — |
| Leigh Stationers' Academy | Good | Top half · 9th in Greenwich | — |
| Woolwich Polytechnic School | School remains Good | Top half · 10th in Greenwich | 5.698 miles (2025) |
| Thomas Tallis School | School remains Good | Lower half · 11th in Greenwich | 1.121 miles (2026) |
| Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through School | School remains Good | Lower half · 12th in Greenwich | 3.405 miles (2026) |
| The John Roan School | Good | Lower half · 13th in Greenwich | 1.225 miles (2026) |
| St Paul's Academy | Requires improvement | Lower half · 14th in Greenwich | 8.202 miles (2025) |
| Royal Greenwich Trust School | Good | Lower half · 15th in Greenwich | 2.821 miles (2025) |
| Plumstead Manor School | Requires improvement | Lower half · 16th in Greenwich | 4.404 miles (2026) |
Sixth forms and colleges (1)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shooters Hill Sixth Form College | Good | Lower half · 9th in Greenwich | — |
Private schools (8)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colfe's School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | Top 25% · 1st in Greenwich | — |
| Blackheath Prep | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Greenwich Waldorf School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards not met | — | — |
| Pulse and Water College | — | — | — |
| St Olave's Prep School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| StreetVibes Media Academy | — | — | — |
| The Pointer School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Thrive Independent School | — | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)Detached£840,000
Semi-detached£580,000
Terraced£500,000
Flat or maisonette£375,000
The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (49 detached, 242 semi-detached, 724 terraced, 937 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Greenwich. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Greenwich →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)3railway stations within 2 km: Charlton Rail Station (1.1 miles); Kidbrooke Rail Station (1.2 miles); Woolwich Dockyard Rail Station (1.2 miles)
48bus stops within 1 km of the town centre
Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 87% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 3,130 postcodes in SE18, SE9, SE3. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published prices115registered nurseries and pre-schools
£75a day, the one day rate published
What Ofsted found: 6 outstanding; 2 strong or better in every area; 89 good, or expected standard; 1 requires improvement; 17 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £8.63 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 113 in Greenwich · 2 in Greenwich.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 13 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Greenwich
The next dates for families applyingSecondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027
Application deadlines and offer days: Greenwich.
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