The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Thomas Gamuel Primary School

URN 140405 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Waltham Forest

Colchester Road, London, E17 8LG

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 23 families named Thomas Gamuel Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 27 offers.

That is 0.85 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 13% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 13% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.91 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 23 94 27 0.85
2024 39 110 40 0.97
2023 36 105 38 0.95
2022 31 96 34 0.91
2021 29 91 33 0.88
2020 22 84 29 0.76
2019 25 79 28 0.89
2018 31 82 34 0.91
2017 21 101 31 0.68
2016 43 102 53 0.81
2015 47 142 54 0.87
2014 54 164 50 1.08

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 13 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 26 November 2021

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 83.0% 21.0% 109.0 108.0
2023/24 81.0% 25.0% 107.0 107.0
2022/23 78.0% 20.0% 109.0 109.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 15.2 12.2 1.0 2.0 19.7%
2023/24 17.5 14.5 1.0 2.0 17.1%
2022/23 17.7 13.7 2.0 2.0 22.6%
2021/22 16.7 11.7 4.0 1.0 29.9%
2020/21 18.0 14.0 2.0 2.0 22.2%
2019/20 18.2 16.2 0.0 2.0 11.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Thomas Gamuel Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.