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0.1 miles214 pupils · KS2 expected standard 83% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Barnet
Saracens Bell Lane
Academy sponsor led · Ages 2 to 11 · Mixed · 394 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 394 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 472
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Head
- Mrs Violeta Tudorache
- Trust
- SARACENS EDUCATION
- Address
- Bell Lane, Hendon, London, NW4 2AS
- Borough
- Barnet
- Telephone
- 02082033115
- DfE reference (URN)
- 150355
- Website
- saracensbl.org
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 7 October 2026 · last checked 9 October 2026
Key dates for 2027 entry
Reception (4+)
- Application deadlineFriday 15 January 2027Open
National closing date for Reception applications: Friday 15 January 2027. Apply through your home borough's coordinated scheme, not directly to the school.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
- National offer dayFriday 16 April 2027Upcoming
Primary National Offer Day: Friday 16 April 2027. Offers are released by your home borough.
Source: GOV.UK · 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 Saracens Bell Lane'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, 11 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.
24 first-preference applications and 52 applications naming it at any preference for 40 places offered (September 2026 entry, DfE)
| Entry | Places offered | First preferences | All preferences |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 40 | 24 | 52 |
These are counts of applications and offers on national offer day. They are not a chance of getting in: places are allocated by the school's published admissions criteria, such as siblings, distance or faith.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary school applications and offers · entry years up to 2026/27 · last checked 9 October 2026
Barnet: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 86.1% of applicants were offered their first preference and 98% were offered one of their preferences (3,649 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 18 June 2026) · last checked 9 October 2026
Inspection
Ofsted graded inspection, 13 October 2021: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Requires improvement
(inspection of the predecessor school, Bell Lane Primary School)Ofsted stopped giving state schools a single overall grade in September 2024. This grade dates from the inspection shown; it is not a current rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years provision
- Good
Source: Ofsted, Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · last checked 9 October 2026
Results
Key stage 2 (end of primary), 2024/25
- % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths39%This school72%Barnet62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths0%This school14%Barnet8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading102This school108Barnet106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths104This school108Barnet105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 51 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 34.6% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 75.7%
- Receiving SEN support
- 15.4%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 6.7%
- Girls / boys
- 47% / 53%
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
- 6.7% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 23.3%
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 415
- Pupils on roll
- 366
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).
Nancy Reuben Primary School
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Ateres Beis Yaakov
0.2 miles98 pupils
Hendon Preparatory School
0.2 miles104 pupils · £5,507 to £8,309 a term (2026-27)
Talmud Torah Tiferes Shlomo
0.3 miles321 pupils
Hasmonean Primary School
0.4 miles172 pupils · KS2 expected standard 90% (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.