Sir Thomas Abney School
Fairholt Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 5ED
This school is closed (it closed in August 2025).
It was replaced by Holmleigh Primary School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Ms Geraldine Fitzmaurice
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 236
- Pupils on roll
- 174
- URN
- 100251
- Local authority
- Hackney
About this school
Sir Thomas Abney School was a community primary school in London. It taught children aged 3 to 11 and had 174 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Sir Thomas Abney School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in January 1900, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 37 | 35 | 22 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 65% | 71% | 55% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 8% | 9% | 9% |
| Expected standard in reading | 70% | 74% | 55% |
| Expected standard in maths | 78% | 80% | 64% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 76% | 80% | 68% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 104.0 | 107.0 | 103.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 104.0 | 107.0 | 103.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.10 | - | - |
| Writing progress | +3.20 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -1.00 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Sir Thomas Abney School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Hackney average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 65% | 68.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 71% | 71.5% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 55% | 72.5% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.3% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.2% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 8% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 226 |
| 2023/24 | 209 |
| 2024/25 | 174 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Sir Thomas Abney School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 30% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 17% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 55% | 8% | 53.3% | 174 | — |
| Holmleigh Primary School | 52% | 5% | 41.1% | 381 | 0.0 miles |
| Lubavitch Girls Primary School | 80% | 6.9% | 10.8% | 101 | 0.4 miles |
| Grazebrook Primary School | 85% | 4.5% | 28.5% | 463 | 0.4 miles |
| Woodberry Down Community Primary School | 72% | 5.8% | 58% | 661 | 0.4 miles |
| Lubavitch Boys' Primary School | 46% | 3.8% | 9.2% | 113 | 0.5 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 53.33%
- English as an additional language
- 44.3%
- Overall absence
- 7.98%
- Persistent absence
- 28.13%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Holmleigh Primary School0.0 miles
Primary · London
-
Lubavitch Girls Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · London
-
Grazebrook Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · London
-
Woodberry Down Community Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · London
-
Lubavitch Boys' Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · London
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- Akiva School Primary
- Albemarle Primary School Primary
- Albion Primary School Primary
- Alderbrook Primary School Primary
- Aldersbrook Primary School Primary
- Alderwood Primary School Primary
- Alexander McLeod Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Sir Thomas Abney School teach?
- Sir Thomas Abney School taught children aged 3 to 11. It was a primary school in London.
- Has Sir Thomas Abney School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Sir Thomas Abney School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Sir Thomas Abney School?
- Sir Thomas Abney School had 174 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- How have Sir Thomas Abney School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 65% in 2022/23 and 55% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Sir Thomas Abney School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Sir Thomas Abney School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 10 October 2025.