SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in London, Greenwich

Thomas Tallis School

134 Kidbrooke Park Road, London, SE3 9PX

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 02088560115

Ofsted

Goodas at 21 February 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 21 February 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

45.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

43% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

64% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

46% 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

-0.12confidence interval -0.30 to 0.06

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
37.4

England average 32.3

A level students
245

Pupils

Pupils on roll
2092
Places
1950
How full
Full — 2092 pupils against 1950 places
Girls / boys
962 / 1130
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
35%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
16%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
7%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
23%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
86%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
57%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
262

After sixth form

Went to university
61%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
350

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

32% 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
76%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
329

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 034F, 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
60%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
40%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
25%

England 17%

Households with no car
44%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

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
Head Teacher: Steve Parsons
Local authority
Greenwich
Ward
Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe
Constituency
Eltham and Chislehurst
URN
100190

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Leigh Academy HalleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 48.4 0.7 mi
Riverston SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Leigh Academy BlackheathFree schools Outstanding 2022 55 0.8 mi
Colfe's SchoolOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Blackheath High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Trinity Church of England School, LewishamVoluntary aided school No grade 48.3 1 mi
Harris Academy GreenwichAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2022 49.9 1.1 mi
St Matthew AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 47.2 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
Burnside CollegeFoundation school No grade 44.2
Oasis Academy CoulsdonAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 44.8
Bristol Metropolitan AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 46.9
Barnhill Community High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 53.1
Heath Lane AcademyAcademy converter No grade 40
Ark Alexandra AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 42.6
Chesterton Community Sports CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 41.2
John O'Gaunt SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 32

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.