Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Islington
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry559 applications · 173 places offered · 235 named it first
- 2026 3.2; Islington median median 2.8
- 2025 3.2; Islington median median 2.8
- 2024 3.0; Islington median median 3.0
- 2023 2.9; Islington median median 2.9
- 2022 3.0; Islington median median 3.0
- 2021 3.0; Islington median median 3.0
- 2020 3.1; Islington median median 3.2
- 2019 3.4; Islington median median 3.0
- 2018 3.3; Islington median median 3.2
- 2017 4.1; Islington median median 3.1
- 2016 3.9; Islington median median 3.0
- 2015 3.4; Islington median median 2.8
- 2014 3.4; Islington median median 3.2
- This school
- Islington median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 173 | 559 | 3.2 | 235 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2025 | 171 | 544 | 3.2 | 225 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2024 | 176 | 519 | 3.0 | 191 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2023 | 172 | 498 | 2.9 | 196 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2022 | 171 | 516 | 3.0 | 199 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2021 | 176 | 523 | 3.0 | 201 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2020 | 174 | 543 | 3.1 | 209 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2019 | 177 | 605 | 3.4 | 238 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2018 | 177 | 585 | 3.3 | 218 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2017 | 144 | 587 | 4.1 | 189 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2016 | 147 | 575 | 3.9 | 202 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2015 | 139 | 466 | 3.4 | 184 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2014 | 145 | 499 | 3.4 | 167 | 1.15 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 167 | 55.5 | 65% | 79% | – |
| 2024/25 | 170 | 55.2 | 69% | 82% | – |
| 2023/24 | 163 | 55.3 | 62% | 79% | +0.56 |
| 2022/23 | 164 | 57.2 | 60% | 85% | +0.55 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Central Foundation Boys' SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.2applications per place 55.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · Tower HamletsGood20222.6applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · HackneyGood20224.6applications per place 53.4Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · HackneyRemains Good20233.7applications per place 51.6Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · IslingtonStandards maintained20253.4applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Hackney20262.6applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · HackneyGraded · no overall grade20254.2applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Tower Hamlets20262.7applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Tower HamletsOutstanding20244.5applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 100458 · 206/4614
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 1,152 on roll
- Free school meals
- 44.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Cowper Street, City Road, London, EC2A 4SH
- Local authority
- Islington
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources