Thomas's Battersea
0.1 miles547 pupils
Leaver destinations
Independent · Prep · Wandsworth
L'Ecole de Battersea
Independent school · Ages 2 to 11 · Mixed · 258 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Independent school
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Curriculum
- French (not the English national curriculum)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 258 census January 2024
- Capacity
- 290
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Headteacher
- Mr Laurent Balerdi
- Address
- Trott Street, Battersea, London, SW11 3DS
- Borough
- Wandsworth
- Telephone
- 02079243186
- DfE reference (URN)
- 135277
- Website
- lecoledebattersea.co.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Admissions
Independent schools run their own admissions. You register directly with the school, usually for a fee, and the school sets its own deadlines, assessments and offer dates, which are separate from the borough process.
Inspection
Ofsted graded inspection, 16 September 2025: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Early years provision
- Outstanding
Independent School Standards, checked 16 September 2025: All standards Met
Source: Ofsted, Management information - non-association independent schools - as at 31 July 2026: most recent inspections data as at 31 July 2026 · most recent inspections as at 2026-07-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Results
This school teaches the French curriculum, not the English national curriculum. GCSE and A-level figures do not apply to it, so their absence here is not a gap in our data.
Pupils and context
- Receiving SEN support
- 7.6%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 0%
- Girls / boys
- 48% / 52%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
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