SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in London, Lambeth

Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School

Belltrees Grove, London, SW16 2HY

Sixth form Roman Catholic
School website 02087693294

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 25 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

57.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

62% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

83% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

67% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.74confidence interval 0.54 to 0.95

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above 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
B
Average points per entry
40.5

England average 32.3

A level students
108

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1187
Places
1200
How full
Nearly full — 1187 of 1200 places taken
Girls / boys
537 / 650
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
5%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
24%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
42%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
97%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
74%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
195

After sixth form

Went to university
73%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
132

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

30% 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
85%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
129

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 Lambeth 030D, 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
56%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
14%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
62%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
4%

England 17%

Households with no car
36%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
28%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Bernadette Boyle
Local authority
Lambeth
Ward
Streatham Wells
Constituency
Streatham and Croydon North
URN
100638

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Dunraven SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 49.7 0.5 mi
St Joseph's CollegeAcademy converter No grade 45.5 0.6 mi
The Norwood SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 50.2 0.8 mi
Norbury High School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2022 46.4 1 mi
The New SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Fidelis CollegeOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Streatham & Clapham High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Woodmansterne SchoolCommunity school No grade 49.3 1.1 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
Rossington All Saints AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.4
Norton SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 41
Cromer AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 48.1
Thorp AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 47.2
All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 35.3
Wellfield AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2021 37.7
Paget High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 38.5
Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, CrawleyVoluntary aided school Good 2023 41.7

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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