Graded inspection · Apr 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry534 applications · 232 places offered · 238 named it first
- 2026 2.3; Tower Hamlets median median 2.3
- 2025 2.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2024 2.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.7
- 2023 2.6; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2022 2.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.4
- 2021 2.7; Tower Hamlets median median 2.6
- 2020 2.8; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2019 3.1; Tower Hamlets median median 2.8
- 2018 3.1; Tower Hamlets median median 3.0
- 2017 3.6; Tower Hamlets median median 3.2
- 2016 3.6; Tower Hamlets median median 3.3; as the previous school
- 2015 3.7; Tower Hamlets median median 3.6; as the previous school
- 2014 3.9; Tower Hamlets median median 3.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Tower Hamlets median
Dashed bars: as Mulberry School for Girls (URN 100968), the previous school.
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 | 232 | 534 | 2.3 | 238 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2025 | 234 | 623 | 2.7 | 262 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2024 | 235 | 642 | 2.7 | 263 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2023 | 234 | 608 | 2.6 | 267 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2022 | 236 | 636 | 2.7 | 289 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2021 | 231 | 631 | 2.7 | 248 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2020 | 232 | 651 | 2.8 | 289 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2019 | 235 | 730 | 3.1 | 317 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2018 | 231 | 712 | 3.1 | 289 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2017 | 206 | 733 | 3.6 | 309 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2016 * | 210 | 759 | 3.6 | 339 | 1.61 |
| Sep 2015 * | 203 | 755 | 3.7 | 309 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2014 * | 199 | 772 | 3.9 | 317 | 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.) | 236 | 57.2 | 64% | 78% | – |
| 2024/25 | 239 | 55.2 | 51% | 70% | – |
| 2023/24 | 239 | 56.1 | 62% | 77% | +0.61 |
| 2022/23 | 233 | 56.5 | 56% | 74% | +0.61 |
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
- Mulberry School for GirlsThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.3applications per place 57.2Attainment 8
- 0.1 km · Tower HamletsGood202346.9Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · Tower HamletsGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 0.6 km · Tower HamletsGood20212.0applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsOutstanding20244.5applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Tower HamletsNot yet inspected2.1applications per place
- 1.1 km · Tower Hamlets20264.6applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Tower Hamlets20263.2applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Tower HamletsGood20232.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 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
- 143629 · 211/4242
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,400 pupils · 1,634 on roll
- Free school meals
- 50.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 May 2017
- Replaced
- Mulberry School for Girls (URN 100968)
- Address
- Richard Street, Commercial Road, London, E1 2JP
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources