The Heathland School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 50.7 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C+ C+ 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 50.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 54.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 16% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.49 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	52[6]	57.2%[6]
2023/24	51.9[4]	59%[4]	+0.49[4]
2022/23	51.2[7]	51%[7]	+0.46[7]
2021/22	57[8]	66%[8]	+0.79[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C+ 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 13.3% 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]	8.5%[10]
2022/23	C+[11]	11.9%[11]
2021/22	B-[12]	16.6%[12]
2018/19	B-[13]	15.8%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 97% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 71% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 0% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 24% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 1% 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	94%[15]	77%[15]	0%[15]	16%[15]	0%[15]	1%[15]
2020/21	94%[16]	75%[16]	1%[16]	18%[16]	1%[16]	0%[16]
2019/20	97%[17]	75%[17]	1%[17]	20%[17]	1%[17]	0%[17]
2018/19	99%[18]	73%[18]	0%[18]	26%[18]	0%[18]	0%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 88% 2022/23[19]
Education: 64% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 19% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	89%[20]	74%[20]	3%[20]	13%[20]
2020/21	93%[21]	84%[21]	1%[21]	8%[21]
2019/20	86%[22]	80%[22]	1%[22]	5%[22]
2018/19	92%[23]	82%[23]	4%[23]	6%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 82% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 23% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 23% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 3% 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	88%[26]	30%[26]
2019/20	87%[25]	25%[25]	23%[25]	3%[25]
2018/19	90%[27]	24%[27]	23%[27]
2017/18	85%[28]	27%[28]	25%[28]	2%[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: 30 Apr 2024[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 13 Jun 2024[29]
Personal development: Outstanding[29]
Quality of education: Outstanding[29]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[29]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[29]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 4.0 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Applications (any preference): 1047 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences: 324 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Places offered: 265 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences per place: 1.2 Entry Sept 2026[30]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	1160[30]	354[30]	265[30]	4.4[30]	1.3[30]
Entry Sept 2024	1268[30]	443[30]	265[30]	4.8[30]	1.7[30]
Entry Sept 2023	1401[30]	488[30]	267[30]	5.2[30]	1.8[30]
Entry Sept 2022	1253[30]	403[30]	265[30]	4.7[30]	1.5[30]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1679[1]
Local authority: Hounslow[1]
Website: http://www.heathland.hounslow.sch.uk/[1]
District: Hounslow [31]
Postcode: TW4 5JD[1]
URN: 102539[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1830 2024/25[32]
English as an additional language: 61.7% 2024/25[32]
SEN support: 8.6% 2024/25[32]
EHC plan: 1.6% 2024/25[32]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 28.3% 2024/25[32]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 9.9%[33]
Mixed: 11%[33]
Asian: 55%[33]
Black: 9.3%[33]
Any other ethnic group: 14.5%[33]
Unclassified: 0.2%[33]

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.

Sources

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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
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