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Secondary school in London, Ealing

Brentside High School

Greenford Avenue, Hanwell, London, W7 1JJ

Sixth form
School website 02085759162

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 29 April 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

44.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

41% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

60% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

72% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.04confidence interval -0.22 to 0.13

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
35.4

England average 32.3

A level students
97

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1483
Places
1600
How full
93% full — 1483 of 1600 places taken
Girls / boys
677 / 806
Overall absence
12%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
32%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
48%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
61%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
89%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
59%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
251

After sixth form

Went to university
64%

England 50%

In education, work or training
78%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
143

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

26% 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
77%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
105

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 Ealing 016C, 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
35%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
23%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
35%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
45%

England 17%

Households with no car
48%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Charlotte Hames
Local authority
Ealing
Ward
North Hanwell
Constituency
Ealing North
URN
101939

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2024 58.4 0.5 mi
Drayton Manor High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 56 0.8 mi
William Perkin Church of England High SchoolFree schools No grade 62.5 0.9 mi
Notting Hill & Ealing High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Dormers Wells High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.1 1.3 mi
Greenford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.6 1.3 mi
St Benedict's SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.4 mi
Ealing Independent CollegeOther independent school No grade 1.7 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
Cardinal Wiseman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 47
Lammas SchoolAcademy converter No grade 36.3
AldridgeUTC@MediaCityUKUniversity technical college Good 2023 35.6
Addey and Stanhope SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 41.1
St Mary's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 36.5
All Hallows RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 49.3
Harris Academy MertonAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2022 53.7
The Basildon Upper AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 28.7

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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