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Secondary school in London, Greenwich

Plumstead Manor School

Old Mill Road, London, SE18 1QF

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2023 Sixth form
School website 02032603333

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 14 June 2023

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 14 June 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

33.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

22% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

41% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

23% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% 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 bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.65confidence interval -0.85 to -0.45

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well 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
101

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1413
Places
1500
How full
94% full — 1413 of 1500 places taken
Girls / boys
689 / 724
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
30%

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
57%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
48%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
254

After sixth form

Went to university
57%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
133

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

9% 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
69%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
129

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 Greenwich 007E, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
40%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
22%

England 17%

Households with no car
46%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Head Teacher: Douglas Greig
Local authority
Greenwich
Ward
Plumstead & Glyndon
Constituency
Erith and Thamesmead
URN
100183

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Thrive Independent SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
St Paul's AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 40.4 1.1 mi
Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 43.3 1.2 mi
Pulse and Water CollegeOther independent school No grade 1.4 mi
Ark Greenwich Free SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 68.2 1.6 mi
Welling SchoolAcademy converter No grade 34.7 1.6 mi
Harris Academy FalconwoodAcademy sponsor led No grade 47.3 1.7 mi
Woolwich Polytechnic School for GirlsFree schools Good 2023 47.5 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
Stoke Newington School and Sixth FormCommunity school Good 2022 48.4
Hebburn Comprehensive SchoolCommunity school No grade 44.2
Ormiston Denes AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 40.5
Burnage Academy for BoysAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 46.6
Haberdashers' Borough AcademyFree schools Good 2024 47.8
The Robert Napier SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.5
King Edward VI AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 39.3
Babington AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 38

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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