Duke's Aldridge

Academy converter·Secondary school London, Haringey·N17 0PG
Composite score
47.6
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#2,754
National rank
#453
In London
#12
In Haringey
Top 86%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
38.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
28%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
48%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
3.35

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
88 first choices, 116 places
First choices per place
0.76
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
205
any preference, for 116 places
Applications from another council area
20%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5620220.6920230.7020240.8820250.762026

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

Every child who put Duke's Aldridge first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
965
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
49.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
65.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.3%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
29.3%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£10,534
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
86%
203 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Duke's Aldridge at a glance

Located in London, Haringey, Duke's Aldridge is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 965 pupils aged 11 to 16. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 38.1, below the national average of 46. Results have held broadly steady on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

28% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 48% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Duke's Aldridge was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 88 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 86% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.0%. There are about 16.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 50% 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. Duke's Aldridge 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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