Community school · Primary
Mitcham · CR4 3PQ · Merton
Ages 2–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 147970
Benedict Academy
Academy sponsor led · Mitcham · CR4 3BE
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
177
Local authority
Merton
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 3–11, in Mitcham, Merton, 177 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 64.6%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 147970
Location
- Address
- Church Road
- Postcode
- CR4 3BE
- Town
- Mitcham
- County
- Surrey
- Local authority
- Merton
- District
- Merton
- Constituency
- Mitcham and Morden
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 177
- Boys / girls
- 87 / 90
- School capacity
- 240
- Capacity fill
- 177 / 240 (74%)
- Free school meals
- 64.6%
- FSM pupils
- 104
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Governance
- Academy trust: STEP ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- STEP ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- STEP ACADEMY TRUST
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Nadia El-Telbani
- Telephone
- 02086484726
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-10-08
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 80%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 15%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 116.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.4%
Persistent absence
18.9%
Unauthorised
2.2%
- Authorised absence
- 3.2%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.7%
- Enrolments in measure
- 148
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 6.6% · Persistent 22.6%
- 2021/22
- Overall 8.7% · Persistent 35.9%