Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Ealing
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 |
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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 entry510 applications · 189 places offered · 151 named it first
- 2026 2.7; Ealing median median 3.0
- 2025 2.5; Ealing median median 2.9
- 2024 2.2; Ealing median median 2.8
- 2023 2.4; Ealing median median 2.9
- 2022 2.1; Ealing median median 2.9
- This school
- Ealing 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 | 189 | 510 | 2.7 | 151 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2025 | 195 | 477 | 2.5 | 119 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2024 | 176 | 392 | 2.2 | 92 | 0.52 |
| Sep 2023 | 179 | 420 | 2.4 | 119 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2022 | 180 | 375 | 2.1 | 81 | 0.45 |
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.) | 167 | 63.7 | 75% | 90% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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 Soane AcademyThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.7applications per place 63.7Attainment 8
- 0.2 km · EalingOutstanding20237.3applications per place 64.6Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · EalingGood20231.4applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · EalingImproved significantly20252.4applications per place 58.6Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · EalingOutstanding20236.0applications per place 62.4Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · EalingImproved significantly20246.9applications per place 66.6Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Hammersmith and FulhamGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Hammersmith and Fulham20263.7applications per place 54.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · HounslowOutstanding20233.3applications per place 59.8Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 147863 · 307/4008
- Trust
- Ark Schools
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,200 pupils · 874 on roll
- Free school meals
- 55.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Address
- Gunnersbury Lane, Ealing, London, W3 8EA
- Local authority
- Ealing
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources