Graded inspection · Oct 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry130 applications · 55 places offered · 34 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2026 2.4; Tower Hamlets median median 2.3
- 2025 3.3; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2024 2.1; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2023 1.4; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2022 1.9; Tower Hamlets median median 2.4
- 2021 1.8; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2020 2.6; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2019 2.0; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2018 3.0; Tower Hamlets median median 3.0
- 2017 3.2; Tower Hamlets median median 3.2
- 2016 3.5; Tower Hamlets median median 3.3
- 2015 2.9; Tower Hamlets median median 3.6
- 2014 2.6; 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 | 55 | 130 | 2.4 | 34 | 0.62 |
| Sep 2025 | 43 | 140 | 3.3 | 19 | 0.44 |
| Sep 2024 | 95 | 203 | 2.1 | 33 | 0.35 |
| Sep 2023 | 140 | 196 | 1.4 | 36 | 0.26 |
| Sep 2022 | 110 | 212 | 1.9 | 32 | 0.29 |
| Sep 2021 | 92 | 161 | 1.8 | 25 | 0.27 |
| Sep 2020 | 76 | 195 | 2.6 | 24 | 0.32 |
| Sep 2019 | 98 | 199 | 2.0 | 26 | 0.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 70 | 210 | 3.0 | 44 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2017 | 74 | 234 | 3.2 | 42 | 0.57 |
| Sep 2016 | 65 | 225 | 3.5 | 39 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2015 | 65 | 187 | 2.9 | 47 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2014 | 76 | 194 | 2.6 | 57 | 0.75 |
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.) | 90 | 48.7 | 49% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 92 | 48.0 | 51% | 70% | – |
| 2023/24 | 128 | 46.0 | 48% | 66% | −0.10 |
| 2022/23 | 86 | 39.2 | 35% | 52% | −0.65 |
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
- London Enterprise AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 0.2 km · Tower HamletsGood202346.9Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · Tower HamletsOutstanding20242.3applications per place 57.2Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsNot yet inspected2.1applications per place
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsOutstanding20244.5applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · Tower HamletsGood20212.0applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · Tower HamletsGood20222.6applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · Tower Hamlets20264.6applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Tower Hamlets20263.2applications per place 50.2Attainment 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
- 141133 · 211/4001
- Trust
- Tower Hamlets Enterprise Academy Ltd
- Capacity
- 600 pupils · 396 on roll
- Free school meals
- 26.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Address
- 81-91 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 1RD
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources