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All-through school in Wembley, Brent

Preston Manor School

Carlton Avenue East, Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 8NA

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 02083854040

Ofsted

Goodas at 14 July 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 14 July 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 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

46.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

40% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

65% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

47% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle 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 better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.25confidence interval 0.06 to 0.43

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
28.3

England average 32.3

A level students
122

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1902
Places
1980
How full
Nearly full — 1902 of 1980 places taken
Girls / boys
921 / 981
Overall absence
8%

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
31%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
65%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
91%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
52%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
248

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
143

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

13% 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
78%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
132

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 Brent 012D, 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
39%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
37%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
29%

England 17%

Households with no car
40%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
43%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
PRESTON MANOR ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Head: Russell Denial
Local authority
Brent
Ward
Preston
Constituency
Brent West
URN
139319

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ark AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 51.5 0.4 mi
Michaela Community SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 77.6 0.5 mi
Lycee International de LondresOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Wembley High Technology CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 63.5 0.9 mi
Ark Elvin AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 45.9 0.9 mi
JFSVoluntary aided school Good 2022 64.6 1.1 mi
Claremont High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.8 1.3 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Science CollegeAcademy converter No grade 60.6 1.4 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
Greenford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.6
Finham Park 2Free schools Good 2023 43.8
Stoke Park SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.4
The Norwood SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 50.2
Arrow Vale High SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.8
The DeanesAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 34.4
Jack Hunt AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 44.2
Trinity Academy BradfordAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.9

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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