Stanburn Primary School, Stanmore

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades Stanburn Primary School on 7 areas: 5 strong standard and 2 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve highly in national tests and examinations."

Early years - Strong standard. "Leaders have extensive knowledge of the early years."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders and staff have established an inclusive culture across the school."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders are ambitious for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school's personal development programme is extensive and carefully tailored to the school's context and pupils' aspirations."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils' attend school well."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is ambitious for pupils."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders need to more precisely measure and evaluate the impact of actions taken to improve attendance, ensuring that effective strategies can be identified and sustained"; "The recording of positive handling incidents and the timeliness of communication with parents and carers need to be more rigorous and consistent"; "Leaders should refine their work on improving pupils' writing by ensuring that expectations are consistently high across the curriculum with a particular focus on spelling, punctuation and grammar".

In its own words: "Our school community works together with the common purpose of building confidence in all our children so that they set their sights high, achieve to the best of their ability and aim to succeed in all that they do."

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:40am and after-school care, from £6.00 per session.

In 2025, 92% of Year 6 pupils at Stanburn Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 96% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 82% and 85% in Harrow and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (87% in reading, 98% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 79 families put Stanburn Primary School as their first choice and 255 named it as one of their preferences, for 90 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 4 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Stanburn Primary School are Whitchurch Primary School & Nursery (0.3 miles, Good, 92% reading, 90% maths); St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 90% reading, 95% maths); Priestmead Primary School and Nursery (0.8 miles, Outstanding, 86% reading, 86% maths); and Aylward Primary School (0.9 miles, Good, 87% reading, 87% maths).

Stanburn Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

15.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 63% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (55%), Mixed (9%) and other ethnic groups (8%).

In 2026, 67 pupils (9.7%) received SEN support and 22 (3.2%) 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.

Stanburn Primary School has a resourced provision for moderate learning difficulties: 12 places, 6 pupils on roll.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Canons Park, about 990 metres away (roughly a 12-minute walk).

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stanburn Primary School (->s), 90 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 209 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Harrow (374).

In 2024/25, Stanburn Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 0.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Stanburn Primary School are Avanti House School (0.3 miles), Park High School (0.5 miles), Bentley Wood High School (1.2 miles) and The Sacred Heart Language College (1.3 miles).