Graded inspection · Sep 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Wandsworth
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 |
Inspection history
- 24 September 2024Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 25 May 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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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 entry868 applications · 130 places offered · 240 named it first
- 2026 6.7; Wandsworth median median 2.4
- 2025 6.1; Wandsworth median median 2.7
- 2024 5.8; Wandsworth median median 3.0
- 2023 5.6; Wandsworth median median 2.5
- 2022 5.9; Wandsworth median median 3.0
- 2021 6.1; Wandsworth median median 3.3
- 2020 5.3; Wandsworth median median 3.4
- 2019 4.5; Wandsworth median median 3.7
- 2018 5.9; Wandsworth median median 3.1
- 2017 6.1; Wandsworth median median 3.0
- 2016 5.7; Wandsworth median median 3.1
- 2015 5.6; Wandsworth median median 3.0
- 2014 5.4; Wandsworth median median 3.5
- This school
- Wandsworth 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 | 130 | 868 | 6.7 | 240 | 1.85 |
| Sep 2025 | 137 | 833 | 6.1 | 204 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2024 | 138 | 797 | 5.8 | 207 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2023 | 134 | 746 | 5.6 | 180 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2022 | 138 | 816 | 5.9 | 198 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2021 | 137 | 832 | 6.1 | 185 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2020 | 155 | 814 | 5.3 | 169 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2019 | 158 | 717 | 4.5 | 166 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2018 | 119 | 701 | 5.9 | 179 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2017 | 116 | 706 | 6.1 | 183 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2016 | 120 | 687 | 5.7 | 158 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2015 | 120 | 675 | 5.6 | 149 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2014 | 126 | 685 | 5.4 | 171 | 1.36 |
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.) | 115 | 56.2 | 68% | 84% | – |
| 2024/25 | 110 | 60.2 | 79% | 92% | – |
| 2023/24 | 115 | 61.3 | 84% | 89% | +1.04 |
| 2022/23 | 112 | 56.2 | 67% | 87% | +0.88 |
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
- Ark Bolingbroke AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20246.7applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · WandsworthRemains Good · improving20247.7applications per place 57.1Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · LambethImproved significantly20254.7applications per place 52.7Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · WandsworthRemains Outstanding20231.9applications per place 45.3Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · LambethOutstanding20232.1applications per place 53.2Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Wandsworth20261.3applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · WandsworthRemains Good20221.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · WandsworthImproved significantly20252.3applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · WandsworthRemains Good20232.4applications per place 49.9Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138267 · 212/4000
- Trust
- Ark Schools
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 800 pupils · 793 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Address
- Wakehurst Road, London, SW11 6BF
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources