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State primary · 4 to 11 · Mixed · 190 pupils

Thorntree Primary School

Thorntree Road, Charlton, London, SE7 8AE · Greenwich
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

Offers reached between 0.27 and 6.14 miles in the last 4 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Royal Borough of Greenwich offer-day figures, 2022 to 2026.

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Ofsted report card · March 2026(39/63)Oversubscribed · 1.3 first choices per place (2026)
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Summary

The key facts, in one place
Primary (key stage 2) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 3,824th of 14,817 on the same figure. Band: Lower half.
(39/63)Rank among 63 Greenwich primaries with results, 2025 results (reading, writing and maths)
See the Greenwich league table →
Inspection
Ofsted report card, March 2026
Getting in
Oversubscribed; last offer 0.27 mi (2026)
Results
73% expected standard; 17% higher standard
Size
190 pupils; 30 places a year; classes of 27
Run by
Greenwich council
Type
Community school
Ages
4 to 11 · Mixed
Ofsted, March 2026The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and wellbeingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Safeguarding standardsMet
Strengths, and things to check
  • Higher standard: 17%, against 15% in Greenwich.
  • Suspensions per 100 pupils: 0.0, against 0.5 in Greenwich.
  • Sessions missed: 5.6%, against 4.9% in Greenwich.
  • Persistently absent: 18.8%, against 13.4% in Greenwich.
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At a glance

Against Greenwich and England
This schoolGreenwichEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Expected standardThe share of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, from the key stage 2 tests and teacher assessment.
73%
In line with Greenwich
Higher standardThe share who reached the higher standard in all three. A small year group can swing this a lot from one year to the next.
17%
Better than Greenwich
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
5.6%
Worse than Greenwich
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
18.8%
Worse than Greenwich
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
0.0
Better than Greenwich
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
27.1
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
29%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
18.3
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.3
More sought after than Greenwich
Greenwich and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • 38 families put it first for 30 places; 29 of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Ofsted report card (Achievement: Expected standard; Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met) Ofsted · inspected 3 March 2026
  • Reading, writing and maths: expected standard: 73% (England 62%) (county 72%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025
  • Reading, writing and maths: higher standard: 17% (England 8%) (county 15%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025

Daily life

  • Absence: 5.6% of sessions missed; 19% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 5.3% and 13% DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
  • Suspensions: 0 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 1); 0 permanent exclusions DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
  • Classes average 27.1 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 18.3 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 46 m, rail 735 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 24 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 19.3 µg/m³, PM2.5 9.2 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

Who runs it

  • Community school is run by its local council (Greenwich), not by an academy trust. DfE, Get Information about Schools

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
6.5 mi3.250
2022202320252026

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception2026————0.27
Reception202530102——1.64
Reception20233089——6.14
Reception202230103——0.63

Source: Council offer-day figures: Royal Borough of Greenwich, 2022 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception202630388629
Reception2025303210130
Reception2024303510130
Reception202329268926
Reception2022293210329
Reception2021302710926
Reception2020303610229
Reception2019302710526
Reception2018292311123
Reception2017304312030

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2014 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

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Results

Results

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard73%62%72%2024/2025
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard17%8%15%2024/2025

Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/2025.

League table place

TableLeague rank
Primary (key stage 2)(39/63)

Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
3 March 2026Report card7 areas graded
4 November 2021Ungraded visitSchool remains Good

Source: Ofsted, 2026.

Greenwich league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life

Absence

YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/255.6%2.7%3.0%19%0.0%
2023/245.8%2.5%3.3%20%0.6%
2022/236.2%1.8%4.3%20%0.6%
Schools with a similar intake5.3%13%

Source: DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25. Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (20-30%), the median of 3218 schools.

Suspensions and exclusions

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/250.00.0%00
2023/245.41.0%110
2022/237.41.0%150
Schools with a similar intake1.3

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size27.12025/26
Classes over 30 pupils0.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher18.3November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus46
rail735

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20253
20246
20233
202210
20212

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 2 involved a pedestrian, 5 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO219.32024
PM1014.92024
PM259.22024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals29%2025/26
First language other than English34%2025/26
SEN support15%2025/26
Education, health and care plan5.8%2025/26
Girls51%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Community school is run by its local council (Greenwich), not by an academy trust. DfE, Get Information about Schools

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Royal Borough of Greenwich
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in London and the Greenwich league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.