School profile
Waterside School
Robert Street, London, SE18 7NB
Overview
Waterside School is a special / send school (community special school) in London, London, for pupils aged 5–11. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 5–11
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 48
- Pupils on roll
- 45
- URN
- 133401
Admissions
- Local authority
- Greenwich
- Federation
- Imperium Federation
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 95 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 18% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 95 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 27% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 100 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 45% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 9% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 27% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 36% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 24 May 2023 · Published 11 July 2023
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Robert Street, London, SE18 7NB
- Local authority
- Greenwich
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