Lammas School

Academy converter·Secondary school London, Waltham Forest·E10 7LX
Composite score
45.4
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#2,913
National rank
#467
In London
#15
In Waltham Forest
Top 92%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
36.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
28%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
46%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
3.02

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 41 places
First choices per place
0.49
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
114
any preference, for 41 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.28
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6720220.3920230.3120240.7720250.492026

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

Every child who put Lammas School 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
574
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
43.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
58.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
24.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
12.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£13,221
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%
122 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
90%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Lammas School is a secondary school serving London, Waltham Forest, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 574 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Lammas School 'Requires improvement'. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 36.3, below the national average of 46. That is down 4.3 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 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%. 46% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Lammas School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 20 families who put it first were offered a place. 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 8.3%. There are about 12.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 43% 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. If you are considering Lammas School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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