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England’s number one state primary school is located in west London, according to the Sunday Times definitive rankings.

Fox Primary School in Notting Hill was named State Primary School of the Year while five other London schools also made the top ten.

The Parent Power schools guide, now in its 24th year, ranks the highest-achieving primary schools based on three years of results in the annual SATS exams taken by 11-year-olds.

At Fox, 73% of children reached level 5 in reading, writing and maths in 2013, rising to 86% in 2014 and 93% in 2015.

The school’s executive head, Paul Cotter, said: “We are not competitive. The last thing we want to come across as is a hot house, because we are the opposite of being a hot house.”

He put the success down to teaching the children “properly, slowly and in depth from reception to Year 6”.

Fox, which finished 30 points ahead of second-placed Park Road Sale in Greater Manchester, is currently undergoing a major renovation with pupils spread across several sites.

They will soon be reunited in one location, complete with a rooftop allotment and beehives.

Located in one of the most expensive areas of London, it has a pupil to teacher ratio of less than ten to one.

Alastair McCall, Editor of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, said: “Whatever way we cut the data this year, at whatever level of attainment, Fox Primary emerged as the leading school in England. It is the stand out school at primary level in the country at present.

“Its success extends beyond the purely academic into all areas of the curriculum and beyond – the product of an enthusiastic, engaged and dynamic staff and outstanding leadership.

“The children who get a place here benefit from the best possible start to their education.”

Elsewhere in the capital, Barnes Primary School ranked third due to 81% of its students achieving Level 5 in reading, writing and maths in 2015, compared to 71% in 2014 and 63% in 2013.

Akiva, a Jewish faith school in Finchley, came fifth, followed by Bishop Gilpin C of E Primary School in seventh.

St Peter’s RC Primary School in Woolwich and All Saints’ C of E Primary School in Putney Common ranked eighth and ninth respectively.