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Girls secondary school in London, Wandsworth

Burntwood School

Burntwood Lane, London, SW17 0AQ

Sixth form Girls
School website 02089466201

Ofsted

Judged to have improved significantly, on 12 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

49.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

49% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

72% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

85% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half 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 top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.34confidence interval 0.16 to 0.53

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as 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
C-
Average points per entry
27.1

England average 32.3

A level students
186

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1462
Places
1965
How full
74% full — 1462 of 1965 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
1398 / 64
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
26%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
37%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
65%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
66%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
280

After sixth form

Went to university
61%

England 50%

In education, work or training
84%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
220

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

16% 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
80%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
207

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 Wandsworth 024C, 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
62%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
10%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
69%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
15%

England 17%

Households with no car
26%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
29%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BURNTWOOD TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Helen Shorrock
Local authority
Wandsworth
Ward
Wandsworth Common
Constituency
Tooting
URN
139842

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ernest Bevin AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.6 0.5 mi
Al Risalah Secondary SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
Al Risalah Boys' SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
Southfields AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 49.4 0.9 mi
Chestnut Grove AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 55.1 1.1 mi
Ricards Lodge High SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 54.2 1.3 mi
Emanuel SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.3 mi
Ark Bolingbroke AcademyFree schools No grade 60.2 1.3 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
The John Wallis Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 30.6
Christ The King Catholic High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Inadequate 2022 35.9
Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 39.2
Shire Oak AcademyAcademy converter No grade 35
Weston Favell AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 41.8
Thomas Bennett Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 33.1
Lift WintonAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 37.9
Beamont Collegiate AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 45.8

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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