Goldbeaters Primary School

Community school·Primary school Edgware, Barnet·HA8 0HA
Composite score
67.8
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#2,093
National rank
#539
In London
#35
In Barnet
Top 14%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
81%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
77%
73 first choices, 58 places
First choices per place
1.26
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
264
any preference, for 58 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08
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1 per place
1.1020221.4520231.5420241.1820251.262026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Goldbeaters Primary School yet. Barnet does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
469
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
42.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
64.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,924
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Goldbeaters Primary School at a glance

Located in Edgware, Barnet, Goldbeaters Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 469 pupils aged 3 to 11. 81% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 1.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 14% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 109 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Goldbeaters Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 73 first choices for 58 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.3%. There are about 22.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 42% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Goldbeaters Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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