Leigh Academy Blackheath[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 54 53.7 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 53.7 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 61.7% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 18.9% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- +0.22 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 | 55[5] | 60.5%[5] | ||
| 2023/24 | 54[3] | 69.5%[3] | +0.22[3] | |
| 2022/23 | 47.6[6] | 50%[6] | -0.23[6] |
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 89% 2022/23[7]
- School sixth form
- 61% 2022/23[7]
- Sixth-form college
- 14% 2022/23[7]
- Further education college
- 11% 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
- 13 Dec 2022[8]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[8]
- Report published
- 7 Feb 2023[8]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[8]
- Quality of education
- Outstanding[8]
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding[8]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[8]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[8]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[8]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 7.1 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Applications (any preference)
- 1214 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 333 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 170 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences per place
- 2.0 Entry Sept 2026[9]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 1289[9] | 362[9] | 170[9] | 7.6[9] | 2.1[9] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 1316[9] | 389[9] | 172[9] | 7.7[9] | 2.3[9] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 1119[9] | 336[9] | 173[9] | 6.5[9] | 1.9[9] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 1053[9] | 299[9] | 177[9] | 5.9[9] | 1.7[9] |
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1150[1]
- Trust
- LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Greenwich[1]
- Website
- https://leighacademyblackheath.org.uk/[1]
- District
- Greenwich[10]
- Postcode
- SE3 8SY[1]
- URN
- 145895[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1035 2024/25[11]
- English as an additional language
- 16.9% 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 17.9% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 3.7% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 28.8% 2024/25[11]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 51.6%[12]
- Mixed
- 15.6%[12]
- Asian
- 8%[12]
- Black
- 15.7%[12]
- Any other ethnic group
- 3%[12]
- Unclassified
- 6.1%[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.