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Girls secondary school in London, Southwark

Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich

Homestall Road, London, SE22 0NR

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Sixth form Girls
School website 02077322276

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 5 December 2023

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 5 December 2023.

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

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

54.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

56% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

76% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

90% 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 most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.40confidence interval 0.17 to 0.63

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
30.2

England average 32.3

A level students
44

Pupils

Pupils on roll
809
Places
950
How full
85% full — 809 of 950 places taken
Girls / boys
794 / 15
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
49%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
34%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
92%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
59%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
133

After sixth form

Went to university
56%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
52

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
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
61

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 Southwark 029D, 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
47%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
27%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
54%

England 17%

Households with no car
56%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
31%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
HARRIS FEDERATION
Headteacher
Principal: Jo Young
Local authority
Southwark
Ward
Peckham Rye
Constituency
Lewisham West and East Dulwich
URN
132711

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Harris Boys' Academy East DulwichAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 55.5 0.4 mi
Haberdashers' Hatcham CollegeAcademy sponsor led No grade 50.5 0.9 mi
The St Thomas the Apostle CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 61.7 0.9 mi
The Charter School East DulwichFree schools Good 2024 56.3 1.1 mi
Alleyn's SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.2 mi
Prendergast SchoolAcademy converter No grade 64 1.3 mi
Prendergast Ladywell SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.2 1.3 mi
James Allen's Girls' SchoolOther independent school No grade 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
St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 33.2
Bishop Barrington AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 39.4
Leigh Academy MinsterAcademy sponsor led No grade 28.4
Walthamstow AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 49.2
Harris Academy South NorwoodAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 48.2
ClarionAcademy converter Good 2022 44.8
Marine Academy PlymouthAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.6
Dixons Fazakerley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 33.4

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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