Westminster City School

Academy converter·Secondary school London, Westminster·SW1E 5HJ
Composite score
65.1
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#685
National rank
#201
In London
#6
In Westminster
Top 22%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
52.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
50%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
73%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
4.51

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
56 first choices, 106 places
First choices per place
0.53
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
252
any preference, for 106 places
Applications from another council area
69%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5820220.5320230.6720240.5220250.532026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Westminster City School yet. Westminster 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
800
Gender
Boys
Religious character
Christian
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
45.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
34.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
25.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
14.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£10,671
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
94%
119 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
93%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Westminster City School at a glance

Located in London, Westminster, Westminster City School is a boys' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Christian religious character. The school educates roughly 800 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 52.1, above the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.4 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.

50% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 73% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 98% of the families who made Westminster City School 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, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.6%. There are about 14.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 45% 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. Westminster City 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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