Knollmead Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames·KT5 9QP
Composite score
52.5
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#6,386
National rank
#1172
In London
#22
In Kingston upon Thames
Top 43%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
16%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
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
85%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
95
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.32
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0720220.9320230.9320240.8120251.132026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Knollmead Primary School yet. Kingston upon Thames 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
239
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
40.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
12.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£10,406
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Knollmead Primary School at a glance

Located in Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames, Knollmead Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 239 pupils aged 3 to 11. 52% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 17.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 43% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 16% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Knollmead Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 34 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. Knollmead 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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