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Boys secondary school in London, Wandsworth

Ernest Bevin Academy

Beechcroft Road, Tooting, London, SW17 7DF

Sixth form Boys
School website 02086728582
Ofsted Report card March 2026
Attainment 8 44.6 around the middle nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 7/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Report card3 March 2026

Ofsted report card published, on 3 March 2026.

The report card grades separate areas of the school's work. Ofsted does not combine them into one overall judgement.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
213 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Achievement
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Post-16 provision
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard

The report-card scale is Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention and Urgent improvement. Safeguarding is graded Met or Not met. These are separate judgements, not a league table or an overall score. How Ofsted's current grades work.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

44.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

45% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

74% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

54% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle 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

0.59confidence interval 0.37 to 0.82

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
C-
Average points per entry
25.7

England average 32.3

A level students
57

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Undersubscribed. Of the 47 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
130

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
47
First choices per place
0.36

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
100%

England 88.5%

Demand has been broadly steady over three years.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
572
Places
900
How full
64% full — 572 of 900 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
7 / 565
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
46%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
66%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
2

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
68

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
13

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
11

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Tooting Bec Underground Station

0.6 km away — metro or tram stop

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
75%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
165

After sixth form

Went to university
57%

England 50%

In education, work or training
77%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
110

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

6% 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
70%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
89

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 area around the school

7/10 Deprivation decile

Among the less deprived half of England.

9/10 Child poverty decile

Among the least deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£625,750

postcode sector SW17 7 · 450 sales

Typical range
£446,625 to £870,500

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£1,330,000
Terraced
£940,000
Flat
£515,125

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
73%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
6%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
36%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
8%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
65%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
66%

England 62.7%

Social housing
4%

England 17%

Privately rented
29%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
16%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
32%

England 22.5%

No car
30%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Wandsworth 027F and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Damola ADEMOLAKE
Opened as this establishment
1 March 2023
Register status
Open
Local authority
Wandsworth
Ward
Trinity
Constituency
Tooting
URN
149543

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

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Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.10 2023/24: 0.38 first choices per place2024/25: 0.30 first choices per place2025/26: 0.29 first choices per place2026/27: 0.36 first choices per place202320252026
All 4 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2023/24 119 45 0.38 100%
2024/25 96 29 0.30 100%
2025/26 100 29 0.29 100%
2026/27 130 47 0.36 100%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
Al Risalah Secondary SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.4 mi
Al Risalah Boys' SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.4 mi
Burntwood SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 49.4 0.340.16 to 0.53 0.5 mi
Chestnut Grove AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 55.1 0.420.21 to 0.64 0.7 mi
Graveney SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 63.9 0.740.57 to 0.91 1.2 mi
Ark Bolingbroke AcademyFree schools No overall grade 60.2 1.040.78 to 1.31 1.3 mi
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2023 48.8 0.220.00 to 0.44 · not a win 1.3 mi
Streatham & Clapham High School GDSTOther independent school No overall grade — — 1.3 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 44.6
Median of its 12 closest peers 45.7
Wandsworth average 40.7
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
Fulham Cross AcademyAcademy converter London Good 2023 45.7 -0.14-0.58 to 0.31 · not a win
St Mary's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Croydon Report card 2026 36.5 0.29-0.03 to 0.60 · not a win
Reach Academy FelthamFree schools Feltham No overall grade 60.8 0.940.58 to 1.30
Highbury Fields SchoolCommunity school London Outstanding 2022 57.4 0.430.17 to 0.68
The Oaks AcademyAcademy sponsor led Crewe Good 2024 35.4 -0.50-0.82 to -0.18
South Chingford Foundation SchoolAcademy sponsor led London Report card 2026 32.8 -0.79-1.05 to -0.52
St. Thomas More Language CollegeAcademy converter London Good 2022 45.9 —
Laurel Park SchoolFoundation school London No overall grade 36.8 -0.37-0.61 to -0.13
Newland School for GirlsAcademy converter Hull Report card 2026 44.2 -0.13-0.39 to 0.14 · not a win
Michaela Community SchoolFree schools London Outstanding 2023 77.6 2.562.29 to 2.83
London Enterprise AcademyFree schools London No overall grade 48 -0.10-0.41 to 0.20 · not a win
Prendergast Vale SchoolAcademy converter London No overall grade 42.2 —

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 149543; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 3 March 2026
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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