Dorchester Primary School
0.4 miles472 pupils · KS2 expected standard 67% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Sutton
Cheam Common Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 512 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 512 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 330
- Head
- Miss Sophie Gunner
- Trust
- LEO ACADEMY TRUST
- Address
- Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park, KT4 8UT
- Borough
- Sutton
- Telephone
- 02083371844
- DfE reference (URN)
- 142398
- Website
- cheamcommon.org.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Key dates for 2027 entry
Year 3 (7+)
- Application deadlineFriday 15 January 2027Open
Closing date for Year 3 (infant to junior transfer) applications: Friday 15 January 2027, through your home borough's coordinated scheme.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · checked 9 Oct 2026
- National offer dayFriday 16 April 2027Upcoming
Offer day for junior school places: Friday 16 April 2027, with primary National Offer Day.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · checked 9 Oct 2026
- Accept your offerDate not statedDate not stated
Accept the offer by the deadline given in your offer letter; your home borough sets the date.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
Get a reminder before Cheam Common Junior Academy's deadlines
One email 14, 7 and 1 day before each dated deadline we hold. No account needed.
A status ("Closes in 12 days") is shown only for a closing date we have checked, worked out from today's date, 10 October 2026. Other dates are printed as the school published them, with its own wording beside them. Dates given only as "early January" are shown as approximate and never counted down. Always confirm with the school or council.
Admissions
You apply through the council where you live, not to the school, naming up to six schools in order on one form. Every applicant on time hears on the same national offer day.
Sutton: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 92.1% of applicants were offered their first preference and 99.7% were offered one of their preferences (2,159 applications). These are borough-wide figures, not a forecast for any school or child.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary schools applications and offers 2026 · entry years 2014/15 to 2026/27 (release published 2026-06-18) · last checked 9 October 2026
Inspection
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 9 February 2024: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
An ungraded inspection confirms or questions the previous grade; it does not set a new one.
Last overall grade: Good, given on 11 September 2018
Historic. This is the last time Ofsted gave the school a single overall grade. Overall grades were abolished for state schools in September 2024.
Source: Ofsted, Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · latest inspections as at 2026-08-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Results
Key stage 2 (end of primary), 2024/25
- % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 83% · 2023/24: 86%90%This school72%Sutton62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 33% · 2023/24: 33%36%This school20%Sutton8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 109 · 2023/24: 111112This school108Sutton106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 111 · 2023/24: 112114This school108Sutton105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 126 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 8.2% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 38.6%
- Receiving SEN support
- 14.9%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 0.8%
- Girls / boys
- 51% / 49%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
Attendance and staffing
- Overall absence
- 3.8% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 6%
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 480
- Pupils on roll
- 511
Source: Department for Education, Capacity - school / Sixth form capacity - school · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · position at 1 May, 2024/25
Nearby schools
Schools covering the same ages within about a mile, by straight-line distance (not walking or travel time).
St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School
0.7 miles465 pupils
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Nonsuch Primary School
0.8 milesApplications: open (15 Jan 2027)
407 pupils · KS2 expected standard 63% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Compare with similar schools
Side-by-side comparisons with the nearest schools of the same type. Sourced facts only; no winner is declared.
- Cheam Common Junior Academy and Cheam Common Infants' Academyunder 0.1 miles apart
- Cheam Common Junior Academy and Dorchester Primary School0.4 miles apart
- Cheam Common Junior Academy and St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School0.7 miles apart
- Cheam Common Junior Academy and Nonsuch Primary School0.8 miles apart