Primary
Downe Primary School
High Elms Road, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7JN
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 85 of 100 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.6
- Local authority
- Bromley
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- THE PIONEER ACADEMY
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 4.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 7.3
- Pupils per adult
- 8.4
- Pupils
- 62
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.
SATs results
92%
22 points above the Orpington average (70% across 24 schools)
108.0
1.0 above the Orpington average (107.0 across 24 schools)
5th of 24 by our score, among the primary schools in Orpington we can score - 26 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2023/2024
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 106 |
| Average reading score | 108 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 92% |
| Working at a higher standard | 8% |
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.
High Elms Road, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7JN
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.
Bromley 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
- Headteacher
- Matthew Ferguson
- Address
- High Elms Road, Downe, Orpington, BR6 7JN
- Telephone
- 01689853916