Canary Wharf College, Glenworth

Free schools·Primary school London, Tower Hamlets·E14 3EB
Composite score
90.2
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#212
National rank
#79
In London
#1
In Tower Hamlets
Top 2%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
85%
% achieving higher RWM
38%
Reading average scaled score
110.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
110.0
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
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
78%
46 first choices, 44 places
First choices per place
1.04
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
155
any preference, for 44 places
Applications from another council area
16%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.14
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8520220.6920230.9320241.1820251.042026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Canary Wharf College, Glenworth yet. Tower Hamlets 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
302
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Christian

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
9.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
37.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,424
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Canary Wharf College, Glenworth at a glance

Located in London, Tower Hamlets, Canary Wharf College, Glenworth is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a free school with a Christian religious character. The school educates roughly 302 pupils aged 4 to 11. 85% 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 8.0 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 110 in reading and 110 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 38% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Canary Wharf College, Glenworth is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 46 first choices for 44 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.4%. There are about 16.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 10% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Canary Wharf College, Glenworth 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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