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Secondary school in Greenford, Ealing

The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School

Greenford Road, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 9AW

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Roman Catholic
School website 02085758222

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 18 April 2024

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 18 April 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

58.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

68% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

86% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

81% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.83confidence interval 0.66 to 0.99

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
B
Average points per entry
38.8

England average 32.3

A level students
216

Pupils

Pupils on roll
2036
Places
2300
How full
89% full — 2036 of 2300 places taken
Girls / boys
1091 / 945
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
13%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
17%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
50%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
96%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
70%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
301

After sixth form

Went to university
73%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
224

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

27% 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
212

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 Ealing 012C, 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
35%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
38%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
17%

England 17%

Households with no car
41%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
34%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Daniel Patrick Coyle
Local authority
Ealing
Ward
Greenford Broadway
Constituency
Ealing North
URN
101934

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Brentside High SchoolFoundation school No grade 44.1 0.5 mi
Dormers Wells High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.1 0.8 mi
William Perkin Church of England High SchoolFree schools No grade 62.5 0.8 mi
Greenford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.6 0.9 mi
Drayton Manor High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 56 1 mi
Villiers High SchoolFoundation school No grade 46.3 1.5 mi
Notting Hill & Ealing High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1.6 mi
Ayesha Siddiqa Girls SchoolOther independent school No grade 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
The Cottesloe SchoolFoundation school No grade 45.4
St Mary's RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 52.2
Sandbach SchoolFree schools No grade 48.2
Townley Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 75
WaingelsAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8
Brighton Hill Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 44.5
The John Fisher SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 55.6
Pensby High SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 44.8

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.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.