SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in London, Enfield

Lift Aylward

Windmill Road, Enfield, London, N18 1NB

Sixth form
School website 02088031738

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 9 December 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

39.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

37% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

61% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

60% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 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 lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.28confidence interval -0.47 to -0.09

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below 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
31

England average 32.3

A level students
78

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1324
Places
1485
How full
89% full — 1324 of 1485 places taken
Girls / boys
638 / 686
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

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
56%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
29%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
86%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
56%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
237

After sixth form

Went to university
53%

England 50%

In education, work or training
76%

England 84.3%

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

10% 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
95

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 Enfield 031B, 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
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
28%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
65%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
26%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
LIFT SCHOOLS
Headteacher
Principal: Lauren Savage
Local authority
Enfield
Ward
Haselbury
Constituency
Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
URN
136147

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Latymer SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 80.1 0.7 mi
Winchmore SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 46.2 0.9 mi
Edmonton County SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 41 1.1 mi
Alternative Centre of EducationOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
Palmers Green High SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
St Anne's Catholic High School for GirlsVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 54.4 1.1 mi
Duke's AldridgeAcademy converter No grade 38.1 1.2 mi
Footsteps TrustOther independent school No grade 1.2 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
Ellis Guilford SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 37.1
Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 33.3
Westminster AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 48.3
Foxford Community SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41
Trinity Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 36.5
Abraham Moss Community SchoolAcademy converter No grade 39.7
Harris Academy Beulah HillAcademy converter No grade 44.4
St Thomas More Catholic School, WillenhallVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41.4

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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