SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in London, Westminster

Westminster Academy

The Naim Dangoor Centre, 255 Harrow Road, London, W2 5EZ

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 02071210600

Ofsted

Goodas at 18 October 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 18 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

48.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

48% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

69% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

89% 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

-0.05confidence interval -0.26 to 0.15

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.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1003
Places
1300
How full
77% full — 1003 of 1300 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
490 / 513
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
39%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
51%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
56%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
89%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
62%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
198

After sixth form

Went to university
63%

England 50%

In education, work or training
78%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
67

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

31% 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
77%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
61

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 Westminster 010F, 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
37%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
23%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
12%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
65%

England 17%

Households with no car
64%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
45%

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
THE WESTMINSTER ACADEMY (WESTBOURNE GREEN)
Headteacher
Principal: Numera Anwar
Local authority
Westminster
Ward
Westbourne
Constituency
Queen's Park and Maida Vale
URN
131262

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Paddington AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 61.6 0.3 mi
Maida Vale SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Kensington Park SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Marylebone Boys' SchoolFree schools Good 2022 48.6 0.7 mi
Instituto Espanol Canada BlanchOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Notting Hill Prep SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
The School of the Islamic Republic of IranOther independent school No grade 0.8 mi
St George's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 55.9 0.9 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
Foxford Community SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41
Trinity Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 36.5
Abraham Moss Community SchoolAcademy converter No grade 39.7
Harris Academy Beulah HillAcademy converter No grade 44.4
The Stockwood Park AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.9
Lift AylwardAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.8
Buile Hill AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2022 42.9
Ellis Guilford SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 37.1

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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