Lantern of Knowledge Secondary School[1]
Independent · ages 10–16
Headline results
No headline results are published for this school in the latest two years.
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 56.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 68.4% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 26.3% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Ofsted[8]
- Latest inspection
- 19 Sep 2023[9]
- Type
- Independent School standard inspection[9]
- Report published
- 9 Nov 2023[9]
- Personal development
- Good[9]
- Quality of education
- Good[9]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[9]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good[9]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[9]
- Independent school standards
- All standards Met[9]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good[9]
Ofsted inspects this independent school against the Independent School Standards; "Independent school standards" says whether it met all of them at its latest standard inspection.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 10–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Boys[1]
- Faith
- Muslim[1]
- Admissions
- Selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 130[1]
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest[1]
- Website
- www.lanternofknowledge.org.uk[1]
- Nursery classes
- No Nursery Classes[8]
- Special classes
- No Special Classes[8]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[8]
- District
- Waltham Forest[10]
- Postcode
- E10 6QT[1]
- URN
- 132848[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 100 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 6% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 1% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[11]
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.
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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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2026-07-31, provisional. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.