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Phoenix Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 52 51.5 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade
AL B- B- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
51.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
55.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
12.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.87 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 49.6[6] 54.3%[6]
2023/24 53.9[4] 53.8%[4] +0.87[4]
2022/23 50.6[7] 49%[7] +0.75[7]
2021/22 48.7[8] 53%[8] +0.38[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade
B- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
8.7% 2024/25[3]
All results, 2020/21
Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20
Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
Earlier years
Year A-level average grade AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24 C+[10] 11.1%[10]
2022/23 C+[11] 7.7%[11]
2021/22 C+[12] 5.3%[12]
2018/19 D-[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
90% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form
60% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college
5% 2022/23[14]
Further education college
22% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship
1% 2022/23[14]
Employment
0% 2022/23[14]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 90%[15] 57%[15] 16%[15] 17%[15] 1%[15] 0%[15]
2020/21 88%[16] 53%[16] 9%[16] 25%[16] 0%[16] 1%[16]
2019/20 85%[17] 50%[17] 11%[17] 21%[17] 1%[17] 2%[17]
2018/19 91%[18] 50%[18] 10%[18] 29%[18] 1%[18] 0%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
80% 2022/23[19]
UK higher education
60% 2022/23[19]
Education
60% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship
7% 2022/23[19]
Employment
13% 2022/23[19]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment UK higher education Education Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 95%[20] 74%[20] 74%[20] 0%[20] 21%[20]
2016/17 92%[21] 53%[21] 73%[21] 2%[21] 16%[21]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education
79% 2021/22[22]
Top third of most selective universities
26% 2021/22[22]

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
6 Nov 2024[23]
Type
S5 Inspection[23]
Report published
5 Dec 2024[23]
Personal development
Outstanding[23]
Quality of education
Outstanding[23]
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding[23]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[23]
Sixth form provision (where applicable)
Outstanding[23]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Outstanding[23]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
19 Mar 2019[24] Academy First Section 5[24] Good[24]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.7 Entry Sept 2026[25]
Applications (any preference)
199 Entry Sept 2026[25]
First preferences
78 Entry Sept 2026[25]
Places offered
118 Entry Sept 2026[25]
First preferences per place
0.7 Entry Sept 2026[25]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 211[25] 69[25] 138[25] 1.5[25] 0.5[25]
Entry Sept 2024 205[25] 67[25] 124[25] 1.7[25] 0.5[25]
Entry Sept 2023 176[25] 60[25] 134[25] 1.3[25] 0.4[25]
Entry Sept 2022 166[25] 51[25] 134[25] 1.2[25] 0.4[25]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages
11–19[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
Yes[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
1100[1]
Trust
FUTURE ACADEMIES[1]
Local authority
Hammersmith and Fulham[1]
Website
www.phoenix.futureacademies.org[1]
District
Hammersmith and Fulham[26]
Postcode
W12 0RQ[1]
URN
143129[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
538 2024/25[27]
English as an additional language
40.9% 2024/25[27]
SEN support
10% 2024/25[27]
EHC plan
2.8% 2024/25[27]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
55.3% 2024/25[27]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
22%[28]
Mixed
7.7%[28]
Asian
9.5%[28]
Black
37.1%[28]
Any other ethnic group
22%[28]
Unclassified
1.7%[28]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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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  4. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  5. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  6. 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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  9. Department for Education: A level and other 16 to 18 results 2020/21. Period 2020/21. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and alternative processes were set up to award grades.
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