Graded inspection · Apr 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Tower Hamlets
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 entry857 applications · 192 places offered · 276 named it first
- 2026 4.5; Tower Hamlets median median 2.3
- 2025 4.9; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2024 5.1; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2023 5.3; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2022 4.8; Tower Hamlets median median 2.4
- 2021 4.4; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2020 4.6; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2019 4.4; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2018 4.2; Tower Hamlets median median 3.0
- 2017 4.4; Tower Hamlets median median 3.2
- 2016 4.2; Tower Hamlets median median 3.3
- 2015 4.3; Tower Hamlets median median 3.6
- 2014 3.9; Tower Hamlets median median 3.3
- This school
- Tower Hamlets 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 | 192 | 857 | 4.5 | 276 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2025 | 194 | 954 | 4.9 | 308 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2024 | 198 | 1,001 | 5.1 | 329 | 1.66 |
| Sep 2023 | 195 | 1,032 | 5.3 | 352 | 1.81 |
| Sep 2022 | 199 | 959 | 4.8 | 312 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2021 | 197 | 864 | 4.4 | 261 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2020 | 195 | 889 | 4.6 | 224 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2019 | 197 | 863 | 4.4 | 204 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2018 | 202 | 852 | 4.2 | 170 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2017 | 198 | 870 | 4.4 | 168 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2016 | 205 | 861 | 4.2 | 162 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2015 | 198 | 841 | 4.3 | 127 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2014 | 214 | 832 | 3.9 | 123 | 0.57 |
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.) | 201 | 58.7 | 68% | 83% | – |
| 2024/25 | 207 | 56.9 | 64% | 81% | – |
| 2023/24 | 205 | 56.1 | 65% | 84% | +0.81 |
| 2022/23 | 208 | 58.7 | 74% | 85% | +1.27 |
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
- Swanlea SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.5applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- 0.6 km · Tower HamletsGood202346.9Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsOutstanding20242.3applications per place 57.2Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Tower Hamlets20262.7applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Tower HamletsGood20222.6applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Tower HamletsGood20212.0applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · Tower HamletsGood20232.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · Tower Hamlets20264.6applications per place 54.0Attainment 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
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 100973 · 211/4297
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,260 pupils · 1,253 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- 31 Brady Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 5DJ
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources