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Secondary school in Bromley

Bishop Justus CofE School

Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley, Kent, BR2 8HZ

Sixth form Church of England
School website 02083158130

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 4 February 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

37.8 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

29% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

52% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

13% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.68confidence interval -0.87 to -0.49

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
27.5

England average 32.3

A level students
56

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1016
Places
1355
How full
75% full — 1016 of 1355 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
471 / 545
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
31%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
33%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
25%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
51%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
205

After sixth form

Went to university
55%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
96

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

12% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
72%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
117

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Bromley 026A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
37%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
42%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
40%

England 17%

Households with no car
32%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
AQUINAS CHURCH OF ENGLAND EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED
Headteacher
Headteacher: Barry Blakelock
Local authority
Bromley
Ward
Bromley Common & Holwood
Constituency
Bromley and Biggin Hill
URN
136466

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ravens Wood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.1 0.9 mi
Bromley High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Hayes SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 54.8 1.2 mi
The Ravensbourne SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 45 1.3 mi
Darrick Wood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 51.5 1.4 mi
Bullers Wood School for BoysFree schools Good 2023 49 1.6 mi
Newstead Wood SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 82.8 1.6 mi
Bullers Wood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 56.3 1.9 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Lealands High SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 44.3
James Calvert Spence CollegeCommunity school Good 2022 34.9
Landau Forte Academy, QEMSAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 49.6
Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and MathematicsAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.9
Harton AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 42.6
St Edward's Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.1
North Walsham High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 45.8
King Edward VI High SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 33.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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