Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in BromleySelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 4 February 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 23 January 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
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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 entry187 applications · 153 places offered · 30 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.2; Bromley median median 3.7
- 2025 1.9; Bromley median median 3.8
- 2024 1.8; Bromley median median 3.5
- 2023 2.4; Bromley median median 3.6
- 2022 2.8; Bromley median median 3.9
- 2021 2.8; Bromley median median 4.0
- 2020 2.9; Bromley median median 3.5
- 2019 3.3; Bromley median median 3.7
- 2018 3.7; Bromley median median 3.5
- 2017 3.5; Bromley median median 3.6
- 2016 3.2; Bromley median median 3.5
- 2015 3.0; Bromley median median 3.1
- 2014 3.3; Bromley median median 3.3
- This school
- Bromley 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 | 153 | 187 | 1.2 | 30 | 0.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 198 | 368 | 1.9 | 51 | 0.26 |
| Sep 2024 | 248 | 446 | 1.8 | 69 | 0.28 |
| Sep 2023 | 250 | 603 | 2.4 | 107 | 0.43 |
| Sep 2022 | 237 | 653 | 2.8 | 137 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2021 | 254 | 721 | 2.8 | 140 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2020 | 255 | 733 | 2.9 | 152 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2019 | 243 | 798 | 3.3 | 152 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2018 | 220 | 813 | 3.7 | 156 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2017 | 221 | 771 | 3.5 | 145 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2016 | 212 | 679 | 3.2 | 136 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2015 | 220 | 661 | 3.0 | 167 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2014 | 187 | 611 | 3.3 | 167 | 0.89 |
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.) | 210 | 43.8 | 42% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 219 | 37.8 | 29% | 52% | – |
| 2023/24 | 233 | 41.3 | 37% | 63% | −0.68 |
| 2022/23 | 205 | 42.2 | 37% | 61% | −0.69 |
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
- Bishop Justus CofE SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · BromleyRemains Good20233.6applications per place 50.8Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · BromleyOutstanding20227.0applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · BromleyGood20245.1applications per place 46.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · BromleyGood20244.4applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · BromleyGood20233.7applications per place 47.6Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Bromley20263.4applications per place 79.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.1 km · BromleyGood20243.4applications per place 56.1Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · BromleyRemains Good20232.3applications per place 45.9Attainment 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136466 · 305/4604
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,355 pupils · 1,016 on roll
- Free school meals
- 34.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2011
- Replaced
- Bishop Justus CofE School (URN 134632)
- Address
- Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley, BR2 8HZ
- Local authority
- Bromley
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources