Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school King's Lynn, Norfolk·PE34 4QZ
Composite score
18.8
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#14,511
National rank
#1651
In East of England
#257
In Norfolk
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
29%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
9 first choices, 9 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
16
any preference, for 9 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
87
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
33.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,760
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School

Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School is a primary school in King's Lynn, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 87 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 29% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 4.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 97 in reading and 97 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 9 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 15.8 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Tilney St Lawrence Community Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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