Castle Hill Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Chessington, Kingston upon Thames·KT9 1JE
Composite score
44.6
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National rank
#1415
In London
#27
In Kingston upon Thames
Top 63%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
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
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
83%
70 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.17
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
170
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9520221.3520231.0820241.2020251.172026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Castle Hill 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
523
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
33.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,798
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Castle Hill Primary School

Castle Hill Primary School is a primary school in Chessington, Kingston upon Thames, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 523 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 56% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 15.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous 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 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 83% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (70 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 19.1 pupils per teacher. Castle Hill 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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