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Girls secondary school in London, Southwark

St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England School

New Kent Road, London, SE1 4AN

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Church of England Girls
School website 02074071843

Ofsted

Goodas at 16 November 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 16 November 2022.

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

52.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

54% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

74% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

37% 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

0.58confidence interval 0.33 to 0.84

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well 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
31.2

England average 32.3

A level students
43

Pupils

Pupils on roll
620
Places
825
How full
75% full — 620 of 825 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
25%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
55%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
38%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
9%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
97%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
76%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
119

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
68

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

21% 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
81%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
72

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 006D, 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
46%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
19%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
61%

England 17%

Households with no car
63%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Catherine May
Local authority
Southwark
Ward
Chaucer
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark
URN
100849

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ark Globe AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2021 48.4 0.2 mi
South Bank University AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41.5 0.4 mi
Ark Walworth AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 43.3 0.6 mi
Haberdashers' Borough AcademyFree schools Good 2024 47.8 0.7 mi
Harris Academy BermondseyAcademy sponsor led No grade 54.6 0.7 mi
Notre Dame Catholic Girls' SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 42.8 0.8 mi
St Michael's Catholic CollegeAcademy converter No grade 58 0.9 mi
City of London Academy (Southwark)Academy sponsor led No grade 52.9 1 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
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 53.6
Bridlington SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2023 30.2
Oasis Academy Lister ParkAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 31.6
Gladesmore Community SchoolCommunity school No grade 43.8
UTC WarringtonUniversity technical college No grade 23
Ridgeway High SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 39.2
Lift Firth ParkAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.7
CHS SouthFree schools Good 2023 48.3

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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