Ark Soane Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

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Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 64 63.7 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 63.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 74.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 35.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[3]

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 6 Mar 2024[4]
Type: S5 Inspection[4]
Report published: 29 May 2024[4]
Personal development: Outstanding[4]
Quality of education: Outstanding[4]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[4]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[4]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[4]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[4]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.7 Entry Sept 2026[5]
Applications (any preference): 510 Entry Sept 2026[5]
First preferences: 151 Entry Sept 2026[5]
Places offered: 189 Entry Sept 2026[5]
First preferences per place: 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[5]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	477[5]	119[5]	195[5]	2.4[5]	0.6[5]
Entry Sept 2024	392[5]	92[5]	176[5]	2.2[5]	0.5[5]
Entry Sept 2023	420[5]	119[5]	179[5]	2.3[5]	0.7[5]
Entry Sept 2022	375[5]	81[5]	180[5]	2.1[5]	0.5[5]

Admissions

Application deadline, 11+ entry: 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[6]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1200[1]
Trust: ARK SCHOOLS[1]
Local authority: Ealing[1]
Website: https://arksoane.org/[1]
District: Ealing [7]
Postcode: W3 8EA[1]
URN: 147863[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 722 2024/25[8]
English as an additional language: 52.9% 2024/25[8]
SEN support: 8.2% 2024/25[8]
EHC plan: 3.5% 2024/25[8]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 54.4% 2024/25[8]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 20.5%[9]
Mixed: 15.4%[9]
Asian: 8.5%[9]
Black: 23.8%[9]
Any other ethnic group: 30.7%[9]
Unclassified: 1.1%[9]

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: 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.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. 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.
arksoane.org: arksoane.org — Ark Soane Academy Admission Policy 2027-28 (PDF). Period 2026-03-02. Archived copy; original. Licence: copyright-quoted.
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September-October 2026: The academy provides opportunities for prospective pupils and their parents/carers to visit the academy. 31 October 2026: National closing date for Secondary applications. (p. 4)
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.