Mulberry School for Girls

Academy converter·Secondary school London, Tower Hamlets·E1 2JP
Composite score
69.0
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#450
National rank
#139
In London
#2
In Tower Hamlets
Top 14%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
55.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
51%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
70%
% EBacc grade 5+
34%
EBacc average points score
5.07

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
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
88%
238 first choices, 232 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
534
any preference, for 232 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2320221.1420231.1220241.1220251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Mulberry School for Girls yet. Tower Hamlets 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
1,647
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
51.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
69.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.7%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
15.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£10,259
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
97%
233 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
97%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Mulberry School for Girls is a girls' secondary school serving London, Tower Hamlets, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,647 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Mulberry School for Girls 'Outstanding'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 55.2 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 0.9 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 14% of secondary schools in England.

51% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 70% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Mulberry School for Girls is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 238 first choices for 232 places. After Year 11, 97% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% 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. 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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