Abacus Belsize Primary School

Free schools·Primary school London, Camden·N1C 4PF
Composite score
89.6
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National rank
#88
In London
#5
In Camden
Top 2%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
84%
% achieving higher RWM
32%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
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
96%
22 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
0.73
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
95
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
8%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.53
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1320221.1320230.8320241.2720250.732026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Abacus Belsize Primary School yet. Camden 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
158
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
36.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
6.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£13,335
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Abacus Belsize Primary School is a primary school serving London, Camden, classified by the DfE as a free school. It has 158 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 84% 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 5.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 2% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 109 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 32% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 96% of the families who made Abacus Belsize Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 17.6 pupils per teacher. Abacus Belsize 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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