Michaela Community School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 80 79.6 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL A- A- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 79.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 99.2% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 82% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +2.56 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	77.6[6]	97.4%[6]
2023/24	79.2[4]	95.7%[4]	+2.56[4]
2022/23	72.6[7]	93%[7]	+2.37[7]
2021/22	74[8]	95%[8]	+2.27[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: A- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 54.1% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	A[9]	57.7%[9]
2022/23	A-[10]	63.9%[10]
2021/22	A[11]	64.4%[11]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 95% 2022/23[12]
School sixth form: 69% 2022/23[12]
Sixth-form college: 8% 2022/23[12]
Further education college: 17% 2022/23[12]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[12]
Employment: 0% 2022/23[12]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	95%[13]	67%[13]	18%[13]	8%[13]	2%[13]	0%[13]
2020/21	97%[14]	72%[14]	10%[14]	15%[14]	0%[14]	1%[14]
2019/20	94%[15]	60%[15]	12%[15]	21%[15]	0%[15]	0%[15]
2018/19	93%[16]	59%[16]	8%[16]	22%[16]	1%[16]	2%[16]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 95% 2022/23[17]
UK higher education: 84% 2022/23[17]
Education: 84% 2022/23[17]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[17]
Employment: 11% 2022/23[17]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	91%[18]	83%[18]	85%[18]	2%[18]	4%[18]
2020/21	94%[19]	75%[19]	76%[19]	0%[19]	18%[19]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 91% 2021/22[20]
Top third of most selective universities: 71% 2021/22[20]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities
2020/21	94%[21]	80%[21]

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: 10 May 2023[22]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[22]
Report published: 9 Jul 2023[22]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[22]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Outstanding[22]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
23 May 2017[23]	S5 Inspection[23]	Outstanding[23]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 8.3 Entry Sept 2026[24]
Applications (any preference): 925 Entry Sept 2026[24]
First preferences: 286 Entry Sept 2026[24]
Places offered: 112 Entry Sept 2026[24]
First preferences per place: 2.6 Entry Sept 2026[24]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	759[24]	231[24]	118[24]	6.4[24]	2.0[24]
Entry Sept 2024	841[24]	245[24]	115[24]	7.3[24]	2.1[24]
Entry Sept 2023	864[24]	225[24]	118[24]	7.3[24]	1.9[24]
Entry Sept 2022	782[24]	213[24]	120[24]	6.5[24]	1.8[24]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 840[1]
Trust: MICHAELA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS TRUST[1]
Local authority: Brent[1]
Website: https://michaela.education/[1]
District: Brent [25]
Postcode: HA9 0UU[1]
URN: 140862[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 744 2024/25[26]
English as an additional language: 72.4% 2024/25[26]
SEN support: 18.2% 2024/25[26]
EHC plan: 2.8% 2024/25[26]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 38.4% 2024/25[26]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 9.6%[27]
Mixed: 5.8%[27]
Asian: 36.7%[27]
Black: 29.6%[27]
Any other ethnic group: 16.1%[27]
Unclassified: 2.3%[27]

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

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