Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 100741 · LAESTAB 209/4204 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Lewisham
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; L = Lewisham median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
London state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the London median, red = in London's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with maintained schools' accounts (CFR), same financial year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. Ranked among 3,280 secondaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against London: London state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against London (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in London percentile points.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 218 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 218 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 218 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 231 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 116 pupils (2024/25).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Lewisham Council, Year 7, 2019/20–27. Lewisham Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: straight-line.
Inspections
OutstandingGoodReport cardUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: May 2026 Report card, lowest Expected · Jun 2022 Remains Good · Mar 2017 Ungraded visit · Apr 2013 Good · Jun 2010 Good · Feb 2007 Outstanding. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (1,580 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 84.16, leadership 8, teaching assistants 7.95, support staff incl. TAs 44.35, whole workforce 128.51 (145 people), 88 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Maintained school accounts (CFR) · April 2025 to March 2026.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Destinations
Students who finished the stage in the cohort year, followed through the next year: sustained = at least six months in education, an apprenticeship or employment
Source: DfE destination measures.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (8)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Lewisham Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Consistent Financial Reporting
- Department for Education, Key stage 4 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How we compare schools · release rel-202610230107-census-layers-england
Sydenham School
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 845 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 26%
A-level results
#107 of 438 London sixth forms, state and independent, 2024/25
Independent and selective (grammar) schools choose their pupils, so high results partly reflect who gets in, not only teaching. Some independent schools don't publish results.
Against London
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No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 217 | 179 |
| 2nd | 174 | 40 |
| 3rd | 117 | 13 |
- 2026/272.1 km
- 2025/262.2 km
- 2024/252.3 km
- 2023/241.8 km
- 2022/232.6 km
- 2021/222.2 km
- 2020/212.6 km
- 2019/201.7 km
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2007–2026
- InclusionStrong
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourStrong
- Leadership and governanceStrong
- Personal development and wellbeingStrong
- Post-16 provisionStrong
- SafeguardingMet
1 point to improve
Read what Ofsted said (3)
From Ofsted report, inspected May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be at Sydenham School.”
- “They enjoy attending school and make positive contributions to their learning and to the wider school community.”
- “Pupils benefit from positive relationships with staff and with their peers.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 99.2%Boys 0.8%
all pupils, incl. sixth form
92.8% full · 1,580 places · 330 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 76.2
- Leadership 8
- Teaching assistants 8
- Other support 36.4
Teachers 84.2 FTE · Whole workforce 128.5 · 145 people
Financials · 2025/26
- +£1,694,736revenue reserve
- +£327,839in-year balance
Grants £9,110 · self-generated £233 · premises £570 per pupil
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
231 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional