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Secondary school in London, Hackney

Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form

Clissold Road, London, N16 9EX

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 02072419600

Ofsted

Goodas at 6 July 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 6 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

48.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

46% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

63% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

29% 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

0.28confidence interval 0.10 to 0.46

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
34.7

England average 32.3

A level students
168

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1665
Places
1700
How full
Nearly full — 1665 of 1700 places taken
Girls / boys
741 / 924
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
26%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
41%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
21%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
20%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
51%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
254

After sixth form

Went to university
38%

England 50%

In education, work or training
79%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
220

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

46% 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
193

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 Hackney 012B, 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
43%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
23%

England 17%

Households with no car
52%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
24%

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
Headteacher: Zehra Jaffer
Local authority
Hackney
Ward
Clissold
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
URN
100279

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Excelsior AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 44.7 0.7 mi
Tawhid Boys School, Tawhid Educational TrustOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
St Paul's Waldorf SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
City of London Academy Highbury GroveAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 45.4 0.8 mi
Highbury Fields SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2022 57.4 0.8 mi
Beis Malka Girls' SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.9 mi
Beis Chinuch Lebonos Girls SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.9 mi
Mossbourne Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2021 65.1 1.1 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
Plumstead Manor SchoolCommunity school Requires improvement 2023 33.4
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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