Graded inspection · May 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Waltham Forest
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 22 May 2024Graded inspection: Good
- 8 March 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry736 applications · 229 places offered · 231 named it first
- 2026 3.2; Waltham Forest median median 2.8
- 2025 2.7; Waltham Forest median median 2.7
- 2024 2.9; Waltham Forest median median 2.8
- 2023 3.1; Waltham Forest median median 2.6
- 2022 3.1; Waltham Forest median median 2.6
- 2021 3.0; Waltham Forest median median 2.9
- 2020 3.3; Waltham Forest median median 3.1
- 2019 3.4; Waltham Forest median median 3.0
- 2018 3.4; Waltham Forest median median 3.1
- 2017 3.6; Waltham Forest median median 3.2
- 2016 3.8; Waltham Forest median median 3.1
- 2015 4.1; Waltham Forest median median 3.0
- 2014 3.6; Waltham Forest median median 2.7
- This school
- Waltham Forest 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 | 229 | 736 | 3.2 | 231 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2025 | 237 | 649 | 2.7 | 207 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2024 | 232 | 665 | 2.9 | 190 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2023 | 236 | 723 | 3.1 | 236 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 234 | 728 | 3.1 | 245 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2021 | 228 | 684 | 3.0 | 179 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2020 | 238 | 778 | 3.3 | 245 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2019 | 237 | 795 | 3.4 | 223 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2018 | 234 | 787 | 3.4 | 228 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2017 | 238 | 856 | 3.6 | 181 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2016 | 239 | 898 | 3.8 | 240 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 | 234 | 960 | 4.1 | 279 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2014 | 240 | 866 | 3.6 | 284 | 1.18 |
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.) | 237 | 49.1 | 51% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 234 | 47.5 | 45% | 67% | – |
| 2023/24 | 230 | 50.0 | 55% | 73% | +0.08 |
| 2022/23 | 235 | 49.0 | 50% | 72% | −0.04 |
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
- Highams Park SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20243.2applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · RedbridgeGood20223.0applications per place 81.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.1 km · Waltham Forest20262.2applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · RedbridgeGood20232.9applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20244.0applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20243.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20224.2applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Waltham ForestGood20232.2applications per place 48.1Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · RedbridgeOutstanding20233.9applications per place 55.5Attainment 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
- 137558 · 320/5400
- Trust
- Highams Park Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,700 pupils · 1,592 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 October 2011
- Replaced
- Highams Park School (URN 103107)
- Address
- 34 Handsworth Avenue, Highams Park, London, E4 9PJ
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources