Harris Girls Academy Bromley

Academy converter·Secondary school Beckenham, Bromley·BR3 1QR
Composite score
72.9
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#301
National rank
#86
In London
#3
In Bromley
Top 10%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
58.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
68%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
82%
% EBacc grade 5+
50%
EBacc average points score
5.58

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
66%
169 first choices, 175 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
773
any preference, for 175 places
Applications from another council area
46%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.28
00.511.5
1 per place
0.4920220.4520230.6220240.6920250.972026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Harris Girls Academy Bromley 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
1,096
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
10.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
14.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,918
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
92%
178 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
91%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Harris Girls Academy Bromley at a glance

Located in Beckenham, Bromley, Harris Girls Academy Bromley is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,096 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 58.3 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 10% of secondary schools in England.

68% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 82% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 66% of the families who made Harris Girls Academy Bromley their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. Harris Girls Academy Bromley 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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