Kelmscott School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 38 37.5 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 37.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 25.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 6.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.33 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	43.7[5]	37.8%[5]
2023/24	44[3]	41%[3]	-0.33[3]
2022/23	42.5[6]	39%[6]	-0.20[6]
2021/22	43.4[7]	39%[7]	-0.21[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 89% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 10% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 47% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 29% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 0% 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	92%[9]	9%[9]	51%[9]	24%[9]	1%[9]	3%[9]
2020/21	92%[10]	10%[10]	51%[10]	28%[10]	0%[10]	1%[10]
2019/20	93%[11]	9%[11]	48%[11]	33%[11]	0%[11]	0%[11]
2018/19	90%[12]	13%[12]	42%[12]	32%[12]	1%[12]	2%[12]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 57% 2016/17[13]
Education: 43% 2016/17[13]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2016/17[13]
Employment: 14% 2016/17[13]

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: 14 Jan 2025[14]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[14]
Report published: 10 Feb 2025[14]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[14]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: Standards maintained[14]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
14 Jan 2020[15]	Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools[15]	No overall grade[15]
Date not published[16]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[16]	Good[16]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.8 Entry Sept 2026[17]
Applications (any preference): 613 Entry Sept 2026[17]
First preferences: 234 Entry Sept 2026[17]
Places offered: 222 Entry Sept 2026[17]
First preferences per place: 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[17]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	512[17]	172[17]	221[17]	2.3[17]	0.8[17]
Entry Sept 2024	514[17]	175[17]	227[17]	2.3[17]	0.8[17]
Entry Sept 2023	440[17]	140[17]	229[17]	1.9[17]	0.6[17]
Entry Sept 2022	388[17]	106[17]	177[17]	2.2[17]	0.6[17]

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: 1200[1]
Local authority: Waltham Forest[1]
Website: http://www.kelmscottschool.co.uk [1]
District: Waltham Forest [18]
Postcode: E17 8DN[1]
URN: 103105[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1097 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language: 54.6% 2024/25[19]
SEN support: 13.1% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan: 4.8% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 37.2% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 38.8%[20]
Mixed: 9.9%[20]
Asian: 29.3%[20]
Black: 14%[20]
Any other ethnic group: 5.1%[20]
Unclassified: 3%[20]

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.
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