Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 141808 · LAESTAB 212/4734 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Wandsworth
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; W = Wandsworth 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 since 2021/22.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 151 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 151 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 151 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 156 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 88 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.
Wandsworth Council, Year 7, 2021/22–27. Wandsworth Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: straight-line.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jun 2023 Remains Good · Jan 2018 Remains Good · Oct 2011 Good · Jan 2009 Satisfactory · Nov 2005 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report.
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 (1,000 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 62.65, leadership 9, teaching assistants 16.19, support staff incl. TAs 38.6, whole workforce 101.25 (114 people), 66 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.
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 (9)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Wandsworth 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
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 710 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 22%
A-level results
#123 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 LondonArrows: London rank change since 2021/22
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 205 | 133 |
| 2nd | 217 | 24 |
| 3rd | 189 | 12 |
- 2026/271.1 km
- 2025/261.1 km
- 2024/251.0 km
- 2023/241.1 km
- 2022/231.2 km
- 2021/221.0 km
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2005–2023
- 2005Goodas predecessor
- 2009Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2011Goodas predecessor
- 2018Remains Good
- 2023Remains Good
30 strong areas
- Pupils' attainment
- Pupils' attendance
- Quality of teaching
- Sixth form provision
- Achievement of pupils
- Leadership and management
- Behaviour and safety of pupils
- The extent to which pupils feel safe
- Outcomes for students in the sixth form
- The use of assessment to support learning
- The quality of provision in the sixth form
- The effectiveness of safeguarding procedures
- Outcomes for individuals and groups of pupils
- The effectiveness of care, guidance and support
- The school's capacity for sustained improvement
- The quality of pupils' learning and their progress
- The extent to which pupils adopt healthy lifestyles
- The leadership and management of teaching and learning
- The effectiveness of leadership and management of the sixth form
- The effectiveness with which the school promotes community cohesion
- The effectiveness of the school's engagement with parents and carers
- The effectiveness of partnerships in promoting learning and well-being
- The extent of pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- The extent to which pupils contribute to the school and wider community
- The effectiveness with which the school deploys resources to achieve value for money
- The effectiveness with which the school promotes equality of opportunity and tackles discrimination
- The extent to which the curriculum meets pupils' needs, including, where relevant, through partnerships
- The quality of learning for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and their progress
- The extent to which pupils develop workplace and other skills that will contribute to their future economic well-being
- The effectiveness of the governing body in challenging and supporting the school so that weaknesses are tackled decisively...
0 weak areas
30 areas graded · inspected as predecessor
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jun 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have established a culture of high expectations.”
- “They are ambitious for pupils to achieve well through, for example, the high proportion of pupils who study all three science subjects at GCSE.”
- “In addition, students in the sixth form receive lots of effective guidance in preparation for life after school.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, leaders’ curriculum thinking lacks rigour, and they are currently reviewing the curriculum rationale.”
- “Sometimes, teachers do not systematically check that pupils have understood important subject concepts.”
- “As a result, pupils have not built up the depth of subject knowledge that they should have.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 45%Boys 55%
112.9% full · 1,000 places · 220 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 53.6
- Leadership 9
- Teaching assistants 16.2
- Other support 22.4
Teachers 62.6 FTE · Whole workforce 101.3 · 114 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£326,000revenue reserve
- −£53,000in-year balance
Grants £8,542 · self-generated £516 · premises £440 per pupil
Single-academy trust: SAINT CECILIA'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
156 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
102 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional