376 pupils
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Kingston upon Thames
Tolworth Junior School
Community school · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 379 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Community school (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 379 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 390
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rachel Nye
- Address
- Douglas Road, Surbiton, KT6 7SA
- Borough
- Kingston upon Thames
- Telephone
- 02083994472
- DfE reference (URN)
- 102574
- Website
- tolworthj.kingston.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.
Kingston upon Thames: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 90% of applicants were offered their first preference and 99.1% were offered one of their preferences (1,457 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 graded inspection, 10 December 2024
No overall grade was given: Ofsted had stopped using one for state schools.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
Last overall grade: Good, given on 8 July 2015
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: 71% · 2023/24: 73%66%This school67%Kingston upon Thames62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 9% · 2023/24: 13%10%This school13%Kingston upon Thames8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 106 · 2023/24: 107109This school107Kingston upon Thames106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 107 · 2023/24: 107108This school107Kingston upon Thames105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 110 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 17.4% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 32.4%
- Receiving SEN support
- 25%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 5%
- 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
- 4.1% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 8.4%
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 420
- Pupils on roll
- 402
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 Matthew's CofE Primary School
0.5 miles403 pupils · KS2 expected standard 68% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Shrewsbury House School
0.6 miles308 pupils · £6,552 to £9,420 a term (2026-27)
Lime Tree Primary School
0.7 miles203 pupils · KS2 expected standard 45% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Christ Church CofE Primary School
0.8 miles405 pupils · KS2 expected standard 71% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Knollmead Primary School
0.8 miles248 pupils · KS2 expected standard 52% (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.
- Tolworth Junior School and Tolworth Infant and Nursery Schoolunder 0.1 miles apart
- Tolworth Junior School and Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School0.4 miles apart
- Tolworth Junior School and St Matthew's CofE Primary School0.5 miles apart
- Tolworth Junior School and Lime Tree Primary School0.7 miles apart