Graded inspection · May 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry197 applications · 74 places offered · 59 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.3
- 2025 4.2; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2024 5.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2023 5.5; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2022 6.1; Tower Hamlets median median 2.4
- 2021 4.8; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2020 4.4; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2019 5.6; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2018 4.6; Tower Hamlets median median 3.0
- 2017 6.4; Tower Hamlets median median 3.2
- 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 | 74 | 197 | 2.7 | 59 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2025 | 75 | 314 | 4.2 | 81 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2024 | 75 | 429 | 5.7 | 153 | 2.04 |
| Sep 2023 | 81 | 446 | 5.5 | 148 | 1.83 |
| Sep 2022 | 76 | 464 | 6.1 | 158 | 2.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 100 | 483 | 4.8 | 166 | 1.66 |
| Sep 2020 | 108 | 477 | 4.4 | 169 | 1.56 |
| Sep 2019 | 74 | 413 | 5.6 | 149 | 2.01 |
| Sep 2018 | 78 | 357 | 4.6 | 133 | 1.71 |
| Sep 2017 | 37 | 237 | 6.4 | 59 | 1.59 |
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 | 51.2 | 56% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 105 | 52.9 | 57% | 71% | – |
| 2023/24 | 76 | 53.4 | 67% | 76% | +0.32 |
| 2022/23 | 79 | 49.6 | 58% | 71% | +0.13 |
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
- Canary Wharf SecondaryThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20242.7applications per place 51.2Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · Tower HamletsRemains Good20221.6applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · SouthwarkGood20222.2applications per place 51.8Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Greenwich20251.2applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Tower Hamlets20261.8applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · LewishamGood20223.3applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · LewishamRemains Good20233.1applications per place 43.6Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · GreenwichGood20233.5applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Tower HamletsGood20225.0applications per place 52.0Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 142879 · 211/4003
- Religious character
- Christian
- Capacity
- 462 pupils · 417 on roll
- Free school meals
- 28.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2016
- Address
- 7 Selsdon Way, London, E14 9GL
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources