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Girls secondary school in Isleworth, Hounslow

Gumley House RC Convent School, FCJ

St John's Road, Isleworth, TW7 6XF

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Roman Catholic Girls
School website 02085688692
Ofsted Good April 2024
Attainment 8 56.3 in the top quarter nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 6/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Goodas at 18 April 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 18 April 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Good
Last overall grade in this dataset
Good
Days since inspection
897 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

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”.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

56.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

66% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

79% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

43% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.73confidence interval 0.52 to 0.94

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
33.5

England average 32.3

A level students
112

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Undersubscribed. Of the 58 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
129

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
58
First choices per place
0.45

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
1013
Places
1220
How full
83% full — 1013 of 1220 places taken
Girls / boys
991 / 22
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
24%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
25%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
36%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
26%

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
3

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
53

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
12
Busiest road nearby
A310

20,419 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
15

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Isleworth Rail Station

0.8 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

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
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

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

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
193

After sixth form

Went to university
73%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
120

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

39% 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
82%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
99

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

6/10 Deprivation decile

Among around the middle for England.

6/10 Child poverty decile

Among around the middle for 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
£477,500

postcode sector TW7 6 · 266 sales

Typical range
£335,000 to £621,250

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£575,000
Terraced
£575,000
Flat
£323,750

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
50%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
17%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
18%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
54%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
49%

England 62.7%

Social housing
16%

England 17%

Privately rented
34%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
16%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
12%

England 22.5%

No car
32%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Hounslow 014A 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
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
Gumley House Convent School Fcj
Headteacher
Headteacher: Stephen Byrne
Opened as this establishment
1 March 2012
Register status
Open
Local authority
Hounslow
Ward
Isleworth
Constituency
Brentford and Isleworth
URN
137928

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

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 2014/15: 0.70 first choices per place2015/16: 0.65 first choices per place2016/17: 0.61 first choices per place2017/18: 0.51 first choices per place2018/19: 0.55 first choices per place2019/20: 0.53 first choices per place2020/21: 0.47 first choices per place2021/22: 0.53 first choices per place2022/23: 0.50 first choices per place2023/24: 0.46 first choices per place2024/25: 0.48 first choices per place2025/26: 0.50 first choices per place2026/27: 0.45 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 208 146 0.70 94%
2015/16 207 135 0.65 93%
2016/17 205 126 0.61 89%
2017/18 208 107 0.51 94%
2018/19 191 106 0.55 83%
2019/20 190 101 0.53 90%
2020/21 189 88 0.47 99%
2021/22 192 101 0.53 100%
2022/23 178 89 0.50 100%
2023/24 180 82 0.46 100%
2024/25 157 75 0.48 100%
2025/26 153 76 0.50 100%
2026/27 129 58 0.45 100%

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
The Green School for BoysFree schools No overall grade 47.1 0.20-0.08 to 0.47 · not a win 0.7 mi
The Green School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2023 52.5 0.640.41 to 0.88 0.7 mi
Isleworth and Syon School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 43.1 0.09-0.12 to 0.29 · not a win 0.9 mi
Lift KingsleyAcademy sponsor led No overall grade 45.1 0.390.10 to 0.68 1.2 mi
Nishkam School West LondonFree schools Outstanding 2024 62.4 0.920.68 to 1.17 1.3 mi
The Richmond upon Thames SchoolFree schools No overall grade 51 0.06-0.18 to 0.31 · not a win 1.3 mi
Bolder AcademyFree schools Good 2022 45.6 0.360.13 to 0.59 1.3 mi
Orleans Park SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 64.4 0.880.69 to 1.08 1.4 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 56.3
Median of its 12 closest peers 45
Hounslow average 47.1
England average 47

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

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
Corby Business AcademyAcademy sponsor led Corby Good 2023 39 0.08-0.12 to 0.27 · not a win
Rugby Free Secondary SchoolFree schools Rugby Report card 2026 43.7 0.13-0.09 to 0.35 · not a win
Townsend Church of England SchoolVoluntary aided school St Albans Good 2024 46.7 0.14-0.10 to 0.39 · not a win
Carr Manor Community SchoolFoundation school Leeds No overall grade 48.8 0.560.36 to 0.77
St James SchoolAcademy converter Exeter Good 2023 46.9 0.09-0.11 to 0.30 · not a win
Cove SchoolFoundation school Farnborough No overall grade 42.7 -0.74-0.95 to -0.53
Avonbourne Boys' AcademyAcademy converter Bournemouth Outstanding 2023 47.3 0.280.02 to 0.54
The Bishop David Brown SchoolAcademy converter Woking Good 2024 45 0.03-0.21 to 0.28 · not a win
St Margaret's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter Liverpool Good 2024 49.6 -0.10-0.30 to 0.11 · not a win
The Mandeville SchoolAcademy converter Aylesbury No overall grade 38.9 -0.78-0.98 to -0.58
Chiltern Hills AcademyAcademy sponsor led Chesham Good 2022 40.3 -0.45-0.66 to -0.23
Bushey Meads SchoolAcademy converter Bushey No overall grade 43.6 -0.45-0.66 to -0.24

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 137928; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 18 April 2024
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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