Wallington Primary Academy, Wallington

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Wallington Primary Academy on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the strengths and areas to improve in curriculum and teaching."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders provide a caring and purposeful start to children's education in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders know each pupil's individual needs well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders demonstrate a clear understanding of the school's strengths."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school's personal development programme is carefully considered and provides pupils with a broad range of opportunities that support character development and preparation for life beyond school."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils' outcomes in national tests at the end of key stage 2 have been below national averages for the last 3 years, including for disadvantaged pupils."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders have established clear systems and priorities to improve attendance, and there are early signs of improvement."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to ensure that their attendance strategy is a priority so that a higher proportion of pupils attend regularly, including disadvantaged pupils and those who are persistently absent"; "Leaders should focus on ensuring that pupils achieve well across subjects, including those who are disadvantaged and children in the early years. In particular, the school should further develop its work to ensure that teaching identifies and addresses misconceptions and that pupils complete work that matches the ambition of the intended curriculum"; "Leaders should implement fully their plans for supporting pupils to behave well during social times in order to ensure that behaviour is consistently positive, both inside and outside of the classrooms".

In its own words: "At Wallington Primary Academy our vision and values are at the heart of every decision we make. They act as the pillars of our curriculum, they inform our teaching and learning practices and most importantly, they underpin the relationships that we cherish and foster."

From the headteacher's welcome: "We are an ambitious school. We aspire to deliver a world-class education for our young people. Whilst we endeavor to ensure our pupils are literate and numerate, our aim is much bolder: we set out for our pupils to become truly incredible young people of future society."

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 45% of Year 6 pupils at Wallington Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 45% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 81% and 82% in Sutton and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 37% in reading and 27% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 16 families put Wallington Primary Academy as their first choice and 71 named it as one of their preferences, for 18 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Wallington Primary Academy are St Elphege's RC Infants' School (0.3 miles); St Elphege's RC Junior School (0.3 miles); Foresters Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 58% reading, 74% maths); and Foresters Primary School (0.3 miles).

Wallington Primary Academy is one of 5 schools run by Cirrus Primary Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

48.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 43.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (28%), Black (20%) and Asian (18%).

In 2026, 24 pupils (15.5%) received SEN support and 11 (7.1%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

Wallington Primary Academy had 12 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Wallington Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Roundshaw Phoenix Centre, 160 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Wallington Primary Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Wallington Primary Academy issued 23 suspensions, 14.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Wallington Primary Academy are Wilson's School (0.5 miles), The John Fisher School (0.5 miles), Thomas More Catholic School (0.7 miles) and Wallington High School for Girls (0.9 miles).