Villiers High School

Foundation school·Secondary school Southall, Ealing·UB1 3BT
Composite score
57.9
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#1,474
National rank
#320
In London
#12
In Ealing
Top 46%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
46.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
51%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
66%
% EBacc grade 5+
2%
EBacc average points score
3.77

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
137 first choices, 174 places
First choices per place
0.79
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
456
any preference, for 174 places
Applications from another council area
11%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6820220.7420230.7220240.7120250.792026

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

Every child who put Villiers High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,445
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
37.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
85.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
16.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,064
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
93%
230 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
91%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Villiers High School at a glance

Located in Southall, Ealing, Villiers High School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 1,445 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 46.3, broadly in line with the national average of 46. Results have held broadly steady on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

51% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 66% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Villiers High School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 137 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 16.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Villiers High 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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