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Girls selective secondary school in Wallington, Sutton

Wallington High School for Girls

Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 0PH

Selective Sixth form Girls Full
School website 02086472380

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 18 March 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

80.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

100% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

100% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

72% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% 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 top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.92confidence interval 0.72 to 1.12

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
A-
Average points per entry
45.5

England average 32.3

A level students
246

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1548
Places
1460
How full
Full — 1548 pupils against 1460 places
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
12%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
37%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
4%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
100%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
100%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
95%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
209

After sixth form

Went to university
81%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
236

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

67% 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
92%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
250

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 Sutton 020E, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
61%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
14%

England 17%

Households with no car
26%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
GIRLS' LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Tracey O'Brien
Local authority
Sutton
Ward
Wallington South
Constituency
Carshalton and Wallington
URN
136789

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The John Fisher SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 55.6 0.7 mi
Oaks Park High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42.5 0.8 mi
Wilson's SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 86.9 1.2 mi
Woodcote High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.1 1.3 mi
Thomas More Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 42.1 1.3 mi
St Philomena's Catholic High School for GirlsVoluntary aided school Good 2022 57.2 1.4 mi
Wallington County Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 77.7 1.5 mi
Carshalton High School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2023 52.4 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
Woodford County High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 80.1
Queens' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.5
Braunton AcademyAcademy converter No grade 53.7
Testbourne Community SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 53.3
Watford Grammar School for BoysAcademy converter No grade 68.9
Highsted Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 61.1
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 64
Wirral Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 69.3

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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