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Schools that beat their postcode

Every league table is mostly a map of advantage. These are the state schools serving England's more disadvantaged intakes that do markedly better than schools with the same intake — the ones a raw ranking buries.

Each school here is compared twice: against every state school in England, and against only those whose share of disadvantaged pupils is similar. The gap between those two positions is the interesting number. A school in the 40th percentile nationally but the 90th among its peers is not a mediocre school — it is a school doing well with a harder intake than most.

Only schools in the two most disadvantaged fifths by intake are listed, because the comparison is meaningless for a school that already sits in a wealthy catchment.

School	Phase	National	Among similar intakes	Gap
Mortimer Community CollegeSouth Shields	Secondary	29th	59th	+30
Eastlea Community SchoolLondon	Secondary	28th	58th	+30
Hampstead SchoolLondon	Secondary	35th	64th	+29
Maria Fidelis Catholic School FCJLondon	Secondary	29th	58th	+29
Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through SchoolLondon	Secondary	36th	65th	+29
Bow SchoolLondon	Secondary	36th	65th	+29
Langdon Park Community SchoolLondon	Secondary	37th	66th	+29
Harlington SchoolHayes	Secondary	32th	61th	+29
Colmers School and Sixth Form CollegeBirmingham	Secondary	29th	58th	+29
Lawnswood SchoolLeeds	Secondary	31th	60th	+29
Norham High SchoolNorth Shields	Secondary	33th	62th	+29
Greig City AcademyLondon	Secondary	28th	57th	+29
Harris Lowe Academy WillesdenLondon	Secondary	28th	57th	+29
Ark Walworth AcademyLondon	Secondary	36th	65th	+29
Grace Academy CoventryCoventry	Secondary	36th	65th	+29
The Milton Keynes AcademyMilton Keynes	Secondary	24th	53th	+29
Castle View Enterprise AcademySunderland	Secondary	30th	59th	+29
Dixons Allerton AcademyBradford	Secondary	29th	58th	+29
Grace Academy DarlastonWednesbury	Secondary	26th	55th	+29
Oasis Academy HadleyEnfield	Secondary	30th	59th	+29
Oasis Academy Shirley ParkCroydon	Secondary	33th	62th	+29
Oasis Academy OldhamOldham	Secondary	34th	63th	+29
Co-op Academy Stoke-On-TrentStoke-on-Trent	Secondary	33th	62th	+29
Platanos CollegeLondon	Secondary	24th	53th	+29
Lipson Co-operative AcademyPlymouth	Secondary	37th	66th	+29
Holyhead SchoolBirmingham	Secondary	36th	65th	+29
Hendon SchoolLondon	Secondary	45th	74th	+29
Hall Green SchoolBirmingham	Secondary	32th	61th	+29
Oxclose Community AcademyWashington	Secondary	29th	58th	+29
Lift Four Dwellings SecondaryBirmingham	Secondary	31th	60th	+29
Aldersley High SchoolWolverhampton	Secondary	37th	66th	+29
Halewood AcademyKnowsley	Secondary	28th	57th	+29
Washwood Heath AcademyBirmingham	Secondary	35th	64th	+29
South Bank University AcademyLondon	Secondary	28th	57th	+29
Ormiston Chadwick AcademyWidnes	Secondary	26th	55th	+29
St Mary's Catholic AcademyBlackpool	Secondary	28th	57th	+29
Waverley SchoolBirmingham	Secondary	30th	59th	+29
David Nieper AcademyAlfreton	Secondary	25th	54th	+29
Co-op Academy North ManchesterManchester	Secondary	32th	61th	+29
Harris Academy OrpingtonBromley	Secondary	34th	63th	+29

6,787 schools had both figures. 551 of them sit at least 20 percentile points higher against similar intakes than they do nationally. This is a ranking of one year's results, not a judgement of a school — small cohorts move percentiles a long way.

Computed from the same data the rest of this site serves — the DfE performance tables, the school census, Ofsted inspection outcomes, the Indices of Deprivation 2019, HM Land Registry price paid data and Census 2021. How each figure is calculated.