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Secondary school in London, Wandsworth

Southfields Academy

333 Merton Road, Wandsworth, London, SW18 5JU

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 02088752600

Ofsted

Goodas at 24 February 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 24 February 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

49.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

48% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

63% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

15% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half 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 quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.48confidence interval 0.25 to 0.70

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
30.9

England average 32.3

A level students
110

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1148
Places
1645
How full
70% full — 1148 of 1645 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
454 / 694
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
18%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
48%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
47%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
72%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
190

After sixth form

Went to university
55%

England 50%

In education, work or training
78%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
139

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
68%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
136

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 Wandsworth 025B, 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
66%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
8%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
54%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
7%

England 17%

Households with no car
37%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
20%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
SOUTHFIELDS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Wanda Golinska
Local authority
Wandsworth
Ward
Southfields
Constituency
Putney
URN
138682

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Saint Cecilia's Church of England SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 52.1 0.5 mi
Burntwood SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.4 0.9 mi
Ashcroft Technology AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 66.7 0.9 mi
Ricards Lodge High SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 54.2 1.2 mi
Putney High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1.2 mi
Emanuel SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.3 mi
Ernest Bevin AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.6 1.4 mi
Ark Putney AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 46.3 1.4 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
Lawnswood SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 42.3
Mount St Mary's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 49.6
Saint Claudine's Catholic School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2022 44.7
Stretford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 44.4
Essa AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 53
Copthall SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.4
St Patrick's Catholic College, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyAcademy converter No grade 40.3
Pool Hayes AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 37.7

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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