St Mark's Primary School

Community school·Primary school Mitcham, Merton·CR4 2LF
Composite score
72.4
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#1,450
National rank
#403
In London
#9
In Merton
Top 10%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
79%
% achieving higher RWM
18%
Reading average scaled score
110.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
111.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
78%
37 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.28
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
115
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.34
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2020221.2320231.1120240.9320251.282026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Mark's Primary School yet. Merton 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
223
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
41.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
75.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
32.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,807
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Mark's Primary School at a glance

Located in Mitcham, Merton, St Mark's Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 223 pupils aged 3 to 11. 79% 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 risen by 3.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 10% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 110 in reading and 111 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 18% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Mark's 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 37 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.4%. There are about 18.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 41% 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. St Mark's 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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