Hill Mead Primary School admissions: how far away places were offered

Reception offers at Hill Mead Primary School, year by year

• “No cut-off” means every applicant was offered a place at the school or at a school they ranked higher, so places never ran out on distance.

Ofsted inspection

At its graded inspection on 4 June 2024, Ofsted’s overall judgement of Hill Mead Primary School was Requires improvement.

• This inspection was under Ofsted’s previous framework. Since 10 November 2025 Ofsted publishes report cards instead, and says the new grades can’t be compared with the old ones. How Ofsted grades schools
• From Ofsted’s data as at 30 September 2026. An inspection after that date may not be shown yet: the full report on Ofsted’s website is always the latest.

Read the full report on Ofsted’s website Source: Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 30 Sep 2026 (Ofsted, published 16 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Admission criteria at Hill Mead Primary School

If more children apply than there are places, the 2026 rules offer places in this order.

1. Looked-after and previously looked-after children (including children adopted from state care outside England).
2. Children with a brother or sister at the school who will still be there when they start (siblings in the nursery class or Year 6 don't count).
3. Children with a professionally supported exceptional medical or social need (or a parent's significant need) for this particular school, decided by Lambeth's MEDSOC panel.
4. Children of teachers or teaching assistants employed at the school for at least 0.6 of full time and for at least 3 years (at most one child per form of entry).
5. Other children, by straight-line distance from the home (a point from the Local Land and Property Gazetteer) to a central point in the school's grounds, measured by Lambeth Council's mapping software. Exactly equal distances are settled by random allocation.

Where a year’s rules are missing from our data, we use the nearest year’s.

Read the official admission rulesAdmissions policy for Lambeth's community primary and secondary schools for the 2026/2027 academic year (determined arrangements). The school’s own published arrangements always take priority over our summary.