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Boys secondary school in London, Merton

Wimbledon College

Edge Hill, London, SW19 4NS

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Roman Catholic Boys Full
School website 02089462533

Ofsted

Goodas at 22 March 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 22 March 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

57 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

69% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

83% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

66% England 40.8%

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

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.86confidence interval 0.65 to 1.07

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
38.7

England average 32.3

A level students
124

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1266
Places
1249
How full
Full — 1266 pupils against 1249 places
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
16%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
22%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
37%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
20%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
96%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
81%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
191

After sixth form

Went to university
64%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
134

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
81%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
128

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 Merton 004C, 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
72%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
9%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
56%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
32%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
36%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Head Master: Adrian Laing
Local authority
Merton
Ward
Hillside
Constituency
Wimbledon
URN
102681

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
King's College SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Norwegian School in LondonOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Ursuline High School WimbledonAcademy converter Good 2021 0.3 mi
Hall School WimbledonOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Wimbledon High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
Ricards Lodge High SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 54.2 0.9 mi
Rutlish SchoolVoluntary controlled school No grade 60.5 1 mi
Raynes Park High SchoolCommunity school No grade 45.3 1.3 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
Chosen Hill SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.6
Kennet SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.5
Hadleigh High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.6
Diss High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.6
Priory Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 44.2
Northwood SchoolAcademy converter No grade 58.4
Acle AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 46.9
Southgate SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.1

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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