Living in Hackney with children
Hackney, Hackney. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 258,464 people in 105,822 households; 27.2% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
88 schools: 50 state primary, 16 state secondary, 22 privateHackney on the schools map →Every school in Hackney, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (50)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mossbourne Riverside Academy | Standards maintained | Top 5% · 1st in Hackney | — |
| Grazebrook Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 2nd in Hackney | 0.51 miles (2026) |
| Southwold Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 3rd in Hackney | — |
| William Patten Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 4th in Hackney | 0.466 miles (2026) |
| Gayhurst Community School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 5th in Hackney | 0.344 miles (2026) |
| Simon Marks Jewish Primary School | Good | Top 5% · 6th in Hackney | — |
| Betty Layward Primary School | School remains Good (Improving) | Top 5% · 7th in Hackney | 0.245 miles (2026) |
| Northwold Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 8th in Hackney | — |
| Hoxton Garden Primary | Improved significantly | Top 5% · 9th in Hackney | 3.463 miles (2025) |
| The Olive School, Hackney | Outstanding | Top 5% · 10th in Hackney | — |
| Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School | Outstanding | Top 5% · 11th in Hackney | — |
| Rushmore Primary School | School remains Good | Top 5% · 12th in Hackney | 0.447 miles (2026) |
| Grasmere Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 5% · 13th in Hackney | 0.197 miles (2026) |
| Orchard Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 5% · 14th in Hackney | — |
| Hackney New Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 10% · 15th in Hackney | — |
| Kingsmead Primary School | Outstanding | Top 10% · 16th in Hackney | 0.568 miles (2026) |
| Jubilee Primary School | Good | Top 10% · 17th in Hackney | — |
| Benthal Primary School | Good | Top 10% · 18th in Hackney | — |
| Daubeney Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 19th in Hackney | — |
| St Monica's Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 20th in Hackney | — |
| St. Paul's With St. Michael's CofE Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 25% · 21st in Hackney | — |
| Shacklewell Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 25% · 22nd in Hackney | 0.277 miles (2026) |
| Mandeville Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 23rd in Hackney | — |
| Princess May Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 24th in Hackney | — |
| St John of Jerusalem Church of England Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 25th in Hackney | — |
| London Fields Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 26th in Hackney | — |
| Morningside Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 25% · 27th in Hackney | — |
| Springfield Community Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 28th in Hackney | 1.051 miles (2025) |
| Shoreditch Park Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 29th in Hackney | 0.493 miles (2025) |
| St Scholastica's Catholic Primary School | Good | Top 25% · 30th in Hackney | — |
| Lauriston School | Good | Top 25% · 31st in Hackney | 0.463 miles (2026) |
| Queensbridge Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 32nd in Hackney | 3.517 miles (2026) |
| Sebright School | Standards maintained | Top 25% · 33rd in Hackney | 0.434 miles (2026) |
| St John and St James CofE Primary School | Outstanding | Top 25% · 34th in Hackney | — |
| Millfields Community School | School remains Good | Top 25% · 35th in Hackney | — |
| Harrington Hill Primary School | Good | Top half · 36th in Hackney | — |
| Woodberry Down Community Primary School | Good | Top half · 37th in Hackney | — |
| Thomas Fairchild Community School | Good | Top half · 38th in Hackney | — |
| Halley House School | Good | Top half · 39th in Hackney | — |
| Lubavitch Girls Primary School | Good | Top half · 40th in Hackney | — |
| Mossbourne Parkside Academy | Ofsted report card | Top half · 41st in Hackney | — |
| St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top half · 42nd in Hackney | — |
| St Matthias Church of England Primary School | School remains Good | Top half · 43rd in Hackney | — |
| Berger Primary School | Standards maintained | Top half · 44th in Hackney | — |
| Nightingale Primary School | Good | Top half · 45th in Hackney | — |
| Gainsborough Primary School | Good | Lower half · 46th in Hackney | 3.31 miles (2026) |
| Holmleigh Primary School | Good | Lower half · 47th in Hackney | — |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Good | Lower half · 48th in Hackney | — |
| Parkwood Primary School | School remains Good | Lower half · 49th in Hackney | 0.861 miles (2025) |
| Lubavitch Boys' Primary School | Good | Lower half · 50th in Hackney | — |
State secondary schools (16)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy | Outstanding | Top 5% · 1st in Hackney | — |
| Mossbourne Community Academy | Ofsted report card | Top 5% · 2nd in Hackney | — |
| Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School | Good | Top 10% · 3rd in Hackney | — |
| Clapton Girls' Academy | Outstanding | Top 10% · 4th in Hackney | — |
| City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park | Outstanding | Top 25% · 5th in Hackney | — |
| Waterside Academy | Ofsted report card | Top 25% · 6th in Hackney | — |
| The Bridge Academy | School remains Good | Top 25% · 7th in Hackney | — |
| The City Academy, Hackney | Good | Top 25% · 8th in Hackney | — |
| Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form | School remains Good | Top half · 9th in Hackney | — |
| The Excelsior Academy | Good | Top half · 10th in Hackney | — |
| Haggerston School | Good | Top half · 11th in Hackney | — |
| Skinners' Academy | Ofsted report card | Top half · 12th in Hackney | — |
| All Saints Catholic High School | Good | Top half · 13th in Hackney | — |
| Lubavitch House School (Senior Girls) | Good | Top half · 14th in Hackney | — |
| Cardinal Pole Catholic School | School remains Good | Top half · 15th in Hackney | — |
| The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School | Good | Lower half · 16th in Hackney | — |
Private schools (22)
| School | Inspection | League table | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Falah Primary School | — | — | — |
| Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls School | — | — | — |
| Beis Malka Girls' School | — | — | — |
| Beis Rochel d'Satmar Girls' School | — | — | — |
| Beis Ruchel D'Satmar London | — | — | — |
| Beis Trana Girls' School | — | — | — |
| Beis Yaakov Girls School | — | — | — |
| Bnei Zion Community School | — | — | — |
| Bnois Jerusalem Girls School | — | — | — |
| Clockhouse Primary School | — | — | — |
| Rosemary Works School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| T T T Y Y School | — | — | — |
| TTD Gur School | — | — | — |
| Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz School | — | — | — |
| Talmud Torah London | — | — | — |
| Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass School | — | — | — |
| Talmud Torah Yetev Lev | — | — | — |
| Tawhid Boys School, Tawhid Educational Trust | — | — | — |
| Tayyibah Girls' School | — | — | — |
| The Lyceum | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Wiznitz Cheder School | — | — | — |
| Yeshuos Moshe 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)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (7 detached, 33 semi-detached, 245 terraced, 1223 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Hackney. 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 Hackney →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 88% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 2,255 postcodes in N16, E5, E9. 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 pricesWhat Ofsted found: 14 outstanding; 1 strong or better in every area; 67 good, or expected standard; 1 requires improvement; 1 inadequate, or safeguarding not met; 23 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £8.63 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 5 in Hackney · 102 in Hackney.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 19 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, Hackney
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