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Cavendish Primary School

Community school in London, W4 2RG, taking ages 3 to 11, 197 on roll.

Report card Ofsted, Nov 2025
1.09 mi Admitted from, 2025/26
83% Full
73.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2025/26, the furthest child offered a place lived 1.09 miles away.

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

The circle is 1.09 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2025/26.

Cavendish Primary School: 1.09 miles, 2025/26 Grove Park Primary School: 0.33 miles, 2025/26, published by Hounslow

This is not a catchment area. 1.09 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 Cavendish 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: 2025/26, from Hounslow. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Hounslow, published admission distances, 2025/26

Where Cavendish Primary School and Grove Park Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Grove Park Primary School admitted from 0.33 miles in 2025/26, published by Hounslow. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 1.09 and 0.33 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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Drop Grove Park Primary School and go back to one school.

If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Hounslow, 9 of 128 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (7.0%; 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 Cavendish Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Grove Park Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.33 mi 2025/26 0.6 mi
Lowther Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.78 mi 2024/25 0.8 mi
Barnes Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.25 mi 2024/25 0.9 mi
Belmont Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.38 mi 2025/26 0.9 mi
Thomson House School Both in reach Primary 0.62 mi 2024/25 1.0 mi
Strand-on-the-Green Infant and Nursery School Both in reach Primary 0.71 mi 2025/26 1.1 mi

The distance as a picture

Cavendish Primary School catchment area map: the 1.09 mile admission distance, 2025/26 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 197 pupils in 236 places (83% full)
Local authorityHounslow

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Report card, November 2025: 3 areas strong or exceptional, 4 at the expected standard
Report card
  • Safeguarding Met
  • Inclusion Strong standard
  • Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
  • Achievement Expected standard
  • Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
  • Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
  • Early years Strong standard
  • Post-16 provision Not applicable
  • Leadership and governance Expected standard
Ofsted stopped giving schools a single overall grade in 2024; from November 2025 each area is judged on this five-point scale.
Meeting the expected standard 73.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 73.0%
2023/24 66.0%
2022/23 64.0%

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

Who goes to Cavendish Primary School

Girls and boys48.2% girls, 51.8% boys
English as an additional language41.1% of pupils
Free school meals23.4% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Cavendish Primary School

Cheapest district inside the 1.09 miles: W4, median £750,000. Dearest: SW13, £2,110,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
W4 Hounslow 0.7 mi £750,000 112 sales
SW13 Richmond upon Thames 0.7 mi £2,110,000 88 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 1.09 miles the school admitted from in 2025/26, 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 Cavendish Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Alexandra Avenue (W4), 137 yd away, with 14.3 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 00:00, last 23:58.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Cavendish School50 yd6.77.05.8E3
Alexandra Gardens87 yd7.87.57.0190, 209
Alexandra Avenue (W4)137 yd14.313.513.1E3, 190, 209

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 Cavendish Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around W4: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at W4 2RG, 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 Cavendish Primary School?

Cavendish 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 2025/26 lived 1.09 miles away, per Hounslow.

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

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 1.09 miles was enough in 2025/26. 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 Cavendish 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 Hounslow school's distance

All Hounslow schools with a published admission distance, tightest first →
How school admissions actually work, and what the distance means →

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Admission distance published by Hounslow. 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.