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Secondary school in London, Greenwich

The John Roan School

Westcombe Park Road, Blackheath, London, SE3 7QR

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 02085167555

Ofsted

Goodas at 10 October 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 10 October 2023.

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

44.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

38% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

58% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

54% 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

-0.29confidence interval -0.53 to -0.06

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below 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
34.2

England average 32.3

A level students
93

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1112
Places
1400
How full
79% full — 1112 of 1400 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
478 / 634
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
22%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
42%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
34%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
19%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
54%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
203

After sixth form

Went to university
53%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
85

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

29% 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
73%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
41

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 Greenwich 016D, 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
69%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
7%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
49%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
18%

England 17%

Households with no car
43%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
28%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
UNITED LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Jennie Sanderson
Local authority
Greenwich
Ward
Blackheath Westcombe
Constituency
Greenwich and Woolwich
URN
147439

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Blackheath High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Greenwich Waldorf SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
St Ursula's Convent SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 55.1 0.7 mi
Leigh Academy BlackheathFree schools Outstanding 2022 55 0.8 mi
George Green's SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2022 49 1 mi
St Matthew AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 47.2 1.1 mi
Thomas Tallis SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 45.6 1.2 mi
Urban Mission SchoolOther independent school No grade 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
Longhill High SchoolCommunity school Requires improvement 2024 32.9
Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 40.5
Trinity Catholic CollegeAcademy converter No grade 42.6
Cockburn SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 49.1
Parliament Hill SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2024 57.1
Haberdashers' Abraham DarbyAcademy sponsor led No grade 37.7
Saint John Bosco CollegeVoluntary aided school Good 2022 43.5
Thomas Clarkson AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 37.4

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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