Ark Bolingbroke Academy

Free schools·Secondary school London, Wandsworth·SW11 6BF
Composite score
75.2
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#244
National rank
#66
In London
#3
In Wandsworth
Top 8%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
60.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
79%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
92%
% EBacc grade 5+
38%
EBacc average points score
5.68

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
45%
240 first choices, 130 places
First choices per place
1.85
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
868
any preference, for 130 places
Applications from another council area
19%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.36
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.4420221.3420231.5020241.4920251.852026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Ark Bolingbroke Academy yet. Wandsworth 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
770
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
26.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
16.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,338
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
91%
112 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
90%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Ark Bolingbroke Academy at a glance

Located in London, Wandsworth, Ark Bolingbroke Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 770 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 60.2 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.1 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 8% of secondary schools in England.

79% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 92% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Ark Bolingbroke Academy is oversubscribed: about 4 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 240 first choices for 130 places. After Year 11, 91% 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 17.3 pupils per teacher. Ark Bolingbroke Academy 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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