207 pupils · KS2 expected standard 72% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Lewisham
Stillness Junior School
Community school · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 276 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Community school (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 276 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 360
- Headteacher
- Mrs Mitzi Nichol
- Address
- Brockley Rise, Forest Hill, London, SE23 1NH
- Borough
- Lewisham
- Telephone
- 02086901416
- DfE reference (URN)
- 100704
- Website
- stillnessjs.lewisham.sch.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
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.
Lewisham: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 87.4% of applicants were offered their first preference and 98.8% were offered one of their preferences (2,840 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, 11 December 2024: Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection confirms or questions the previous grade; it does not set a new one.
Ofsted graded inspection, 4 February 2020: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Good
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
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
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: 81% · 2023/24: 70%83%This school68%Lewisham62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 0% · 2023/24: 10%17%This school10%Lewisham8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 109 · 2023/24: 105109This school107Lewisham106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 106 · 2023/24: 104106This school106Lewisham105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 64 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 7.6% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 30.4%
- Receiving SEN support
- 13.9%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 2.9%
- Girls / boys
- 50% / 50%
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
- 4% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 7.8%
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 355
- Pupils on roll
- 271
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).
Dalmain Primary School
0.4 miles381 pupils · KS2 expected standard 71% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Prendergast Ladywell School
0.5 miles1,280 pupils · Attainment 8 49.2 (2024/25)
Applications: closes in 21 days (31 Oct 2026)
Beecroft Garden Primary
0.5 miles382 pupils · KS2 expected standard 69% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
St Dunstan's College
0.6 miles1,234 pupils · A level average A- (2024/25) · £6,177 to £9,723 a term (2026-27)
Registration: closes in 6 days (16 Oct 2026)
Rathfern Primary School
0.6 miles484 pupils · KS2 expected standard 82% (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.