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Invicta Primary School

Community school in London, SE3 7HE, taking ages 3 to 11, 714 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Jun 2024
1.38 mi Admitted from, 2024/25
113% Full, over capacity
61.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2024/25, the furthest child offered a place lived 1.38 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 1.38 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2024/25.

Invicta Primary School: 1.38 miles, 2024/25 Kidbrooke Park Primary School: 0.48 miles, 2024/25, published by Greenwich

This is not a catchment area. 1.38 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Invicta Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

One published year so far: 2024/25, from Greenwich. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Greenwich, published admission distances, 2024/25

Where Invicta Primary School and Kidbrooke Park Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Kidbrooke Park Primary School admitted from 0.48 miles in 2024/25, published by Greenwich. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 1.38 and 0.48 miles, and the ground those circles share holds no district centre, which is a fact about where the centres fall rather than about any one address. The map above shows both, and the postcode checker answers for both.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Greenwich, 14 of 217 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (6.5%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Invicta Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Sherington Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.35 mi 2024/25 0.2 mi
Cherry Orchard Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.67 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
Fossdene Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.54 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
Halstow Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.35 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
Charlton Manor Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.92 mi 2024/25 0.7 mi
Kidbrooke Park Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.48 mi 2024/25 0.8 mi

The distance as a picture

Invicta Primary School catchment area map: the 1.38 mile admission distance, 2024/25 and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 714 pupils in 630 places (113% full, over capacity)
Local authorityGreenwich

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 09 June 2024
Meeting the expected standard 61.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 61.0%
2023/24 62.0%
2022/23 62.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Invicta Primary School

Girls and boys53.5% girls, 46.5% boys
English as an additional language27.9% of pupils
Free school meals28.3% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Invicta Primary School

Cheapest district inside the 1.38 miles: SE7, median £480,000. Dearest: SE10, £625,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
SE7 Greenwich 0.7 mi £480,000 108 sales
SE3 Greenwich 0.7 mi £615,000 91 sales
SE10 Greenwich 0.9 mi £625,000 94 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 1.38 miles the school admitted from in 2024/25, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Invicta Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Blackheath / Royal Standard, 154 yd away, with 38.1 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 00:05, last 00:20.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Blackheath / Royal Standard90 yd23.521.518.853, 422, 380, 54
Blackheath / Royal Standard154 yd38.131.228.753, 202, 108, 380, 54, 335
Blackheath / Royal Standard0.1 mi23.320.818.6422, 108, 335, 286, 386

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Invicta Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around SE3: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at SE3 7HE, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Invicta Primary School?

Invicta Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in 2024/25 lived 1.38 miles away, per Greenwich.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Invicta Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 1.38 miles was enough in 2024/25, and at 113% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Invicta Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Greenwich school's distance

All Greenwich schools with a published admission distance, tightest first →
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Admission distance published by Greenwich. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.