Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 143427 · LAESTAB 305/4003 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Bromley
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; B = Bromley 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 64 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 64 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 64 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 121 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 23 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.
Bromley Council, Year 7, 2021/22–23. Bromley Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: unknown.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementInadequate
Dates are the day each inspection started: May 2023 Good · Jun 2019 Requires improvement · Mar 2016 Inadequate · Jan 2012 Good · May 2009 Satisfactory · May 2006 Satisfactory. 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
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 33.84, leadership 5.8, teaching assistants 7.93, support staff incl. TAs 30.01, whole workforce 63.85 (74 people), 35 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
- Bromley 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 2,170 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 67%
A-level results
#394 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 | 73 | 73 |
| 2nd | 34 | 15 |
| 3rd | 32 | 8 |
- 2022/23All offered
- 2021/22All 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 · 2006–2023
- 2006Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2009Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2012Goodas predecessor
- 2016Inadequateas predecessor
- 2019Requires improvement
- 2023Good
5 strong areas
- Personal development
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Sixth form provision
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
0 weak areas
5 areas graded · safeguarding effective · 2 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected May 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have established a culture in the school that embodies the school’s motto, ‘Together, we can’.”
- “Pupils develop a strong sense of community.”
- “Staff know pupils extremely well and, as a result, pupils are safe and happy.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, teaching does not check pupils’ understanding and identify misconceptions.”
- “This means that pupils are not fully ready to learn new content.”
- “The school should develop the expertise of all teachers so that they identify and address any gaps in pupils’ understanding consistently.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 39.7%Boys 60.3%
101 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 28
- Leadership 5.8
- Teaching assistants 7.9
- Other support 22.1
Teachers 33.8 FTE · Whole workforce 63.9 · 74 people
Financials · 2024/25
- −£996,000revenue reserve
- −£377,000in-year balance
Grants £10,792 · self-generated £487 · premises £707 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
121 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
79 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional