City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

Free schools·Secondary school London, Hackney·N1 5JU
Composite score
67.9
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#512
National rank
#157
In London
#6
In Hackney
Top 16%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
54.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
58%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
80%
% EBacc grade 5+
44%
EBacc average points score
5.17

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
67%
205 first choices, 170 places
First choices per place
1.21
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
714
any preference, for 170 places
Applications from another council area
21%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.41
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0920221.1720230.7720240.8020251.212026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park yet. Hackney 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
11–19
Pupils on roll
861
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
60.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
45.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
21.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.6
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£11,206
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%
153 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
93%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park is a secondary school in London, Hackney, classified by the DfE as a free school. Around 861 pupils aged 11 to 19 attend the school. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 54.3, above the national average of 46. That is down 4.6 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 16% of secondary schools in England.

58% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 80% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 67% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (205 first choices for 170 places). 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 7.5%. There are about 16.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 60% 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. City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park 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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