Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 134226 · LAESTAB 304/6905 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Brent
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; B = Brent 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 academies' accounts (AAR), same academic 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 8 173 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 173 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 173 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 168 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 50 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.
Brent Council, Year 7, 2019/20–27. Brent Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: unknown.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementInadequateGood or betterUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Nov 2024 All areas Good · Jan 2019 Remains Good · Nov 2015 Good · Jan 2014 Inadequate · Mar 2012 Good · Nov 2008 Good · Mar 2006 Satisfactory. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). 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 (1,200 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.
Parent View
Survey period 3 Sep 2024 to 1 Sep 2025, as at 1 Sep 2025. Source: Ofsted Parent View management information, OGL v3.0 (dataset). The school's own survey page is under Visit & links.
Ofsted changed the survey on 10 Nov 2025. The card shows the newest survey with 10 or more responses; an earlier survey is labelled and never mixed with the current one.
Share of the parents who answered, from Ofsted's published percentages: agree = strongly agree + agree; yes/no and overall-view questions show the share answering Yes or Positive. Where a question does not apply to every parent (Not applicable, I have not raised any concerns), agree is the share of the parents it applies to: strongly agree + agree divided by 100% minus that answer; the card says how many it did not apply to. Don't know stays in. Ofsted publishes a school only with 10 or more submissions. The questions changed on 10 November 2025: the card shows the current survey when the school has one, else the earlier survey (one academic year of submissions, the latest with 10 or more), never both.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 73.8, leadership 8, teaching assistants 6, support staff incl. TAs 26.48, whole workforce 100.28 (101 people), 74 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
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
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.
All sources and licences (10)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Brent Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, 16-19 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- 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
- Ofsted, Ofsted Parent View management information
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 2,345 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 72%
A-level results
#227 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
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 79 | 79 |
| 2nd | 71 | 22 |
| 3rd | 43 | 5 |
- 2026/272.9 km
- 2025/26Varies by rule
- 2024/25Varies by rule
- 2020/215.7 km
- 2019/20All offered
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2006–2024
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Sixth form provisionGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- SafeguardingEffective
2 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Nov 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils achieve well and are prepared successfully for their next academic steps.”
- “The school fosters a sense of belonging, mutual respect and ambition among its pupils.”
- “New senior leaders are determined to raise further the academic and behavioural expectations of pupils across the school.”
To improve
- “The teaching for pupils at the early stages of learning to read English is not as developed as other parts of the curriculum.”
- “Sometimes, these pupils therefore struggle to understand what they have learned.”
- “At times, the curriculum at key stage 3 is not routinely adapted to meet the needs of a few pupils.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 43.4%Boys 56.6%
95.8% full · 1,200 places · 217 in sixth form
Parent View
Earlier survey (before Nov 2025) · as at 1 Sep 2025 · 164 responses (14.6% of pupils)
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 65.8
- Leadership 8
- Teaching assistants 6
- Other support 20.5
Teachers 73.8 FTE · Whole workforce 100.3 · 101 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£573,000revenue reserve
- +£75,000in-year balance
Grants £9,310 · self-generated £490 · premises £350 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: HARRIS FEDERATION (55 academies) · trust reserve £28,094,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
168 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
114 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional