St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School

Voluntary aided school·Secondary school Orpington, Bromley·BR6 9SH
Composite score
100.0
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National rank
#1
In London
#1
In Bromley
Top 0.3%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
83.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
100%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
100%
% EBacc grade 5+
89%
EBacc average points score
8.22

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
46%
257 first choices, 128 places
First choices per place
2.01
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
473
any preference, for 128 places
Applications from another council area
68%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.6920221.7720231.9720242.0720252.012026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School yet. Bromley does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,085
Gender
Boys
Religious character
Church of England
Admissions
Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
4.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
46.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
5.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
4.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.8
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,361
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
100%
125 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
100%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School at a glance

Located in Orpington, Bromley, St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School is a boys' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 1,085 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 83.6, well above the national average of 46. That is down 2.2 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 1% of secondary schools in England.

100% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 100% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 46% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (257 first choices for 128 places). After Year 11, 100% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 17.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 5% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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