Forty Hill CofE Primary School, Enfield

Ofsted's report card from its 3 March 2026 inspection grades Forty Hill CofE Primary School on 7 areas: 4 expected standard and 3 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Typically, pupils achieve above national averages in the end of key stage 2 tests in reading, writing and mathematics."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Attendance is above the national average, including for disadvantaged pupils."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children are given successful foundations to build on in the early years."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils follow a coherent and broad personal, social and health education curriculum."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The quality of teaching is variable across the curriculum."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "While the school has systems in place to identify pupils' needs, these are not fully embedded or robust enough."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leadership of the school has changed significantly."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the school's new approach to inclusion is embedded so that pupils' needs are identified quickly and met well"; "Leaders should ensure that the school's pupil premium strategy is informed by evidence and well understood and followed by staff, so that additional funding has a positive impact on the achievement of disadvantaged pupils"; "Leaders should ensure that reasonable adjustments and adaptations to the curriculum and how it is taught are implemented routinely to support pupils' learning"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers use effective teaching strategies across subjects to help pupils to recall and remember their previous learning"; "Leaders and governors should work together to ensure that they strategically implement and quality assure the new processes and systems they are rolling out so that they have maximum impact on pupils' progress and experiences".

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The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 82% of Year 6 pupils at Forty Hill CofE Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 89% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 80% and 81% in Enfield and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (86% in reading, 89% in maths).

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 32 families put Forty Hill CofE Primary School as their first choice and 90 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Forty Hill CofE Primary School are Worcesters Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 72% reading, 78% maths); Capel Manor Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 72% reading, 72% maths); Honilands Primary School (0.7 miles); and Carterhatch Junior School (0.7 miles, Good, 79% reading, 88% maths).

Forty Hill CofE Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

57 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Forty Hill CofE Primary School (as of April 2026): 93% would recommend the school, 93% say their child is happy there and 56% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (93%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (56%).

12.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 11.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (32%), Black (20%) and Mixed (16%).

In 2026, 22 pupils (9.8%) received SEN support and 6 (2.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Turkey Street Rail Station, about 970 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).

In 2024/25, Forty Hill CofE Primary School issued 7 suspensions, 3.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Forty Hill CofE Primary School are St Ignatius College (0.3 miles), Chace Community School (1 mile), The Lea Valley Academy (1 mile) and Ark John Keats Academy (1.1 miles).