The Norwood School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 47 46.9 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B B 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 46.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 45.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 15.4% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.03 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	50.2[6]	46.1%[6]
2023/24	48.5[4]	47.1%[4]	+0.03[4]
2022/23	49[7]	42%[7]	+0.03[7]
2021/22	48.6[8]	42%[8]	+0.14[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 16.7% 2024/25[3]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C+[10]	10.7%[10]
2022/23	B-[11]	18.8%[11]
2021/22	B-[12]	8.3%[12]
2018/19	C[13]	10.5%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 53% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 2% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 34% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[14]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	92%[15]	54%[15]	4%[15]	28%[15]	2%[15]	4%[15]
2020/21	95%[16]	65%[16]	5%[16]	23%[16]	1%[16]	1%[16]
2019/20	94%[17]	60%[17]	4%[17]	27%[17]	1%[17]	0%[17]
2018/19	90%[18]	56%[18]	12%[18]	22%[18]	0%[18]	0%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[19]
UK higher education: 59% 2022/23[19]
Education: 69% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 20% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	90%[20]	66%[20]	73%[20]	1%[20]	16%[20]
2020/21	69%[21]	47%[21]	50%[21]	1%[21]	18%[21]
2019/20	86%[22]	68%[22]	73%[22]	5%[22]	8%[22]
2018/19	75%[23]	30%[23]	42%[23]	3%[23]	30%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 78% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 13% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 13% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 2% 2019/20[25]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	63%[26]	13%[26]
2019/20	77%[25]	17%[25]	13%[25]	2%[25]
2018/19	45%[27]	9%[27]	7%[27]	0%[27]
2017/18	68%[28]	12%[28]	10%[28]	0%[28]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 22 Feb 2023[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 27 Apr 2023[29]
Personal development: Good[29]
Quality of education: Good[29]
Overall effectiveness: Good[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[29]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[29]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
12 Dec 2017[30]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[30]	No overall grade[30]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 4.9 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Applications (any preference): 851 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences: 199 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Places offered: 174 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences per place: 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[31]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	852[31]	232[31]	166[31]	5.1[31]	1.4[31]
Entry Sept 2024	881[31]	213[31]	175[31]	5.0[31]	1.2[31]
Entry Sept 2023	849[31]	223[31]	160[31]	5.3[31]	1.4[31]
Entry Sept 2022	773[31]	223[31]	165[31]	4.7[31]	1.4[31]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 900[1]
Local authority: Lambeth[1]
Website: http://www.thenorwoodschool.org/[1]
District: Lambeth [32]
Postcode: SE19 3NY[1]
URN: 100624[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1069 2024/25[33]
English as an additional language: 30.6% 2024/25[33]
SEN support: 16.1% 2024/25[33]
EHC plan: 4.3% 2024/25[33]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 32.2% 2024/25[33]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 49.8%[34]
Mixed: 19.1%[34]
Asian: 3.4%[34]
Black: 23.9%[34]
Any other ethnic group: 2%[34]
Unclassified: 1.7%[34]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

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