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Secondary school in Southall, Ealing

Featherstone High School

11 Montague Waye, Southall, Middlesex, UB2 5HF

Sixth form Full
School website 02088430984

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 11 March 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

48.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

49% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

69% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

100% 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

0.60confidence interval 0.43 to 0.78

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
38.7

England average 32.3

A level students
110

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1748
Places
1627
How full
Full — 1748 pupils against 1627 places
Girls / boys
864 / 884
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
16%

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
84%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
9%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
68%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
268

After sixth form

Went to university
67%

England 50%

In education, work or training
85%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
200

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

17% 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
79%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
181

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 043B, 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
25%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
32%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
26%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
57%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
GRAND UNION MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Nathan Walters
Local authority
Ealing
Ward
Southall Green
Constituency
Ealing Southall
URN
137729

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ayesha Siddiqa Girls SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Guru Nanak Sikh AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 49.9 0.8 mi
Villiers High SchoolFoundation school No grade 46.3 0.9 mi
Tarbiyyah Secondary School for BoysOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Cranford Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 51.7 1.2 mi
Heston Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.6 1.3 mi
Dormers Wells High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.1 1.6 mi
Lampton AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 52.5 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
St Julie's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 46.9
Titus Salt SchoolCommunity school No grade 40.9
Dyson Perrins CofE AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 43.8
Ash Green SchoolAcademy converter No grade 40.7
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademyAcademy converter No grade 46.6
Goffs - Churchgate AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 42.6
Wey Valley AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 41
Northfleet School for GirlsFoundation school No grade 43

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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