Charles Dickens Primary School
Primary schoolCharles Dickens Primary School is a primary school in Southwark, for pupils aged 2 to 11. It had 494 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Standards maintained, June 2025
Before that: Outstanding (overall), September 2019, before the school changed
- Inspection
- Graded inspection, 24 September 2019
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Latest ungraded inspection
- Standards maintained, 25 June 2025
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationIn 2024/25, 92% of pupils at Charles Dickens Primary School met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 70% in Southwark and 62% in England.
34% reached the higher standard (8% in England).
End of primary school (KS2)
2024/25| Measure | This school | Southwark | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 92% | 70% | 62% |
| Reached the higher standard | 34% | 12% | 8% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 109 | 107 | 106 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 110 | 106 | 105 |
- Progress scores from KS1 to KS2 were not published for 2024/25, because the KS1 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- Haberdashers' Borough AcademySecondary. Good (overall), March 2024. Attainment 8 of 49.2 (2025/26, provisional)140 m
- The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary OveriePrimary. Outstanding (overall), December 2022. 93% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)260 m
- Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, the BoroughPrimary. School remains Good, October 2023. 83% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)310 m
- London Christian SchoolIndependent. Not in Ofsted's state-funded schools file360 m
- Friars Primary Foundation SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, February 2024. 68% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)470 m
- Beormund Primary SchoolSpecial. Outstanding (overall), June 2024560 m
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Southwark
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).