Primary
Southwold Primary School
Detmold Road, Clapton, Hackney, E5 9NL
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 341 of 430 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
- Local authority
- Hackney
- Nursery
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 36.1
- Pupils per adult
- 9.8
- Pupils
- 354
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected April 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
SafeguardingMet
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
91%
15 points above the Hackney average (76% across 50 schools)
113.0
5.9 above the Hackney average (107.1 across 50 schools)
1st of 50 by our score, among the primary schools in Hackney we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 111 |
| Average reading score | 113 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 91% |
| Working at a higher standard | 32% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 87% |
| 23/24 | 91% |
| 24/25 | 91% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 111.0 |
| 23/24 | 110.0 |
| 24/25 | 113.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 109.0 |
| 24/25 | 111.0 |
Detmold Road, Clapton, Hackney, E5 9NL
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Hackney admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Executive Headteacher
- Stephen O'Brien
- Address
- Detmold Road, Clapton, Hackney, E5 9NL
- Telephone
- 02088065201