Enfield County School for Girls

Community school·Secondary school Enfield·EN2 6QG
Composite score
65.0
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#697
National rank
#203
In London
#5
In Enfield
Top 22%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
52.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
54%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
78%
% EBacc grade 5+
33%
EBacc average points score
4.99

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
71 first choices, 123 places
First choices per place
0.58
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
429
any preference, for 123 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5620220.6620230.6020240.6520250.582026

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

Every child who put Enfield County School for Girls 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
1,015
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
47.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
24.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,855
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
95%
174 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
95%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Enfield County School for Girls at a glance

Located in Enfield, Enfield County School for Girls is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 1,015 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 52.0, above the national average of 46. That is down 1.0 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 22% of secondary schools nationally.

54% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 78% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Enfield County School for Girls was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 71 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 14.5 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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