Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit admissions: how far away places were offered

Reception offers at Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit, 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.

Things to know before you apply for September 2027

• Less predictable The distance cut-off has moved a lot from year to year (between 355 m and 684 m, or 0.22 and 0.43 miles), and the share of places going to siblings has swung (15 of 30 places in 2024, 6 of 30 in 2025). Treat past cut-offs here with extra caution.
• The distance cut-off grew from 466 m (0.29 miles) in 2025 to 684 m (0.43 miles) in 2026.
• Sibling priority: the council's 2023-24 policy limited it to families within 800 m (with exceptions); the proposed 2027-28 policy has no distance limit, which could mean more sibling places.

Ofsted inspection

At its graded inspection on 22 February 2022, Ofsted’s overall judgement of Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit was Good.

• 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 Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit

If more children apply than there are places, the 2026 rules offer places in this order. In 2026, the last places went to children in group 5.

1. Looked-after children and children who were previously looked after (adopted or under a child arrangements or special guardianship order).
2. Children with a professionally supported exceptional medical or social need for this particular school.
3. Children with a brother or sister at the school (Reception to Year 6) at the time of admission.
4. Children of staff employed directly at the school (conditions apply).
5. Other children, in order of straight-line distance from home to the centre of the school site (measured by Wandsworth Council).

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

Read the official admission rulesWandsworth Council: proposed admissions policy for community primary schools (without priority areas) 2027-28. The school’s own published arrangements always take priority over our summary.