Cherry Garden School

State-Funded School

cherry-garden-school-southwark-london

LondonRegion

SouthwarkLocal Authority

PeckhamConstituency

SE15 5BBPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Cherry Garden School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 2–11, located in Southwark, London.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 112 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2024

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

21%

Asian

Black

50%

Mixed

13%

Chinese

<1%

Any other group

Unclassified

Pupils

112

Total Pupils

57%Boys

43%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

60%

England average

27%

First language not English

29%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 2 – 11
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 112
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 18 December 2024. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
25 Jun 2015	Outstanding	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Outstanding

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.