Bullers Wood School for Boys[1]
Secondary · ages 11–16
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 48 47.6 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 47.6 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 46.1% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 8.3% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- 0.00 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 49[5] | 57%[5] | ||
| 2023/24 | 48.5[3] | 58.6%[3] | 0.00[3] | |
| 2022/23 | 50.6[6] | 57%[6] | +0.18[6] |
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 95% 2022/23[7]
- School sixth form
- 59% 2022/23[7]
- Sixth-form college
- 5% 2022/23[7]
- Further education college
- 30% 2022/23[7]
- Apprenticeship
- 1% 2022/23[7]
- Employment
- 1% 2022/23[7]
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
- 7 Feb 2023[8]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[8]
- Report published
- 28 Mar 2023[8]
- Personal development
- Good[8]
- Quality of education
- Good[8]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[8]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good[8]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[8]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good[8]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 3.7 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Applications (any preference)
- 646 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 131 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 175 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences per place
- 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[9]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 676[9] | 152[9] | 165[9] | 4.1[9] | 0.9[9] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 672[9] | 180[9] | 172[9] | 3.9[9] | 1.0[9] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 791[9] | 226[9] | 172[9] | 4.6[9] | 1.3[9] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 731[9] | 211[9] | 174[9] | 4.2[9] | 1.2[9] |
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Boys[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 900[1]
- Trust
- LUMERO EDUCATIONAL TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Bromley[1]
- Website
- www.bwsboys.org[1]
- District
- Bromley[10]
- Postcode
- BR1 2NW[1]
- URN
- 145868[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 894 2024/25[11]
- English as an additional language
- 11.4% 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 17.5% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 5.2% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 16.7% 2024/25[11]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 67.4%[12]
- Mixed
- 12.5%[12]
- Asian
- 7.5%[12]
- Black
- 8.6%[12]
- Any other ethnic group
- 2.8%[12]
- Unclassified
- 1.1%[12]
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.
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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 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. 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.
- Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.