Frederick Bremer School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 50 49.7 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 49.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 50.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 15.6% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.25 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	46.7[5]	47.1%[5]
2023/24	45.9[3]	40.9%[3]	-0.25[3]
2022/23	45.8[6]	43%[6]	-0.14[6]
2021/22	44.6[7]	40%[7]	-0.36[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 20% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 30% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 39% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	96%[9]	26%[9]	24%[9]	40%[9]	2%[9]	2%[9]
2020/21	94%[10]	24%[10]	25%[10]	43%[10]	1%[10]	0%[10]
2019/20	94%[11]	30%[11]	35%[11]	25%[11]	0%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	95%[12]	29%[12]	28%[12]	37%[12]	1%[12]	1%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 4 Jun 2024[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 4 Jul 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
26 Feb 2019[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	No overall grade[14]
Date not published[15]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[15]	Good[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 4.0 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 645 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 168 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 161 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	673[16]	189[16]	158[16]	4.3[16]	1.2[16]
Entry Sept 2024	661[16]	174[16]	168[16]	3.9[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2023	724[16]	214[16]	154[16]	4.7[16]	1.4[16]
Entry Sept 2022	544[16]	172[16]	166[16]	3.3[16]	1.0[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 900[1]
Local authority: Waltham Forest[1]
Website: http://www.bremer.org.uk/[1]
District: Waltham Forest [17]
Postcode: E17 4EY[1]
URN: 103094[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 881 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 23.3% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 21.1% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 10.2% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 34.1% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 45.9%[19]
Mixed: 13.7%[19]
Asian: 16.6%[19]
Black: 19.5%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 3.6%[19]
Unclassified: 0.7%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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