Harris Academy Bermondsey[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 54 54.2 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C C 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 54.2 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 56.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 20.8% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.55 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	54.6[6]	56.8%[6]
2023/24	51.3[4]	45.7%[4]	+0.55[4]
2022/23	51.8[7]	49%[7]	+0.52[7]
2021/22	55.1[8]	56%[8]	+0.72[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 7.5% 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]	6.5%[10]
2022/23	C+[11]	17.2%[11]
2021/22	B[12]	26.7%[12]
2018/19	C-[13]	3.7%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 96% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 54% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 13% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 27% 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	96%[15]	55%[15]	12%[15]	25%[15]	0%[15]	1%[15]
2020/21	97%[16]	58%[16]	16%[16]	21%[16]	1%[16]	2%[16]
2019/20	93%[17]	60%[17]	7%[17]	23%[17]	1%[17]	0%[17]
2018/19	95%[18]	50%[18]	13%[18]	31%[18]	1%[18]	1%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 85% 2022/23[19]
UK higher education: 68% 2022/23[19]
Education: 73% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 5% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 7% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	76%[20]	64%[20]	64%[20]	0%[20]	12%[20]
2020/21	89%[21]	75%[21]	75%[21]	4%[21]	11%[21]
2019/20	94%[22]	83%[22]	89%[22]	0%[22]	6%[22]
2018/19	89%[23]	80%[23]	83%[23]	3%[23]	3%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 84% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 28% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 34% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 9% 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	93%[26]	37%[26]
2019/20	97%[25]	38%[25]	34%[25]	9%[25]
2018/19	86%[27]	6%[27]	6%[27]	3%[27]
2017/18	90%[28]	34%[28]	34%[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: 4 Feb 2025[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 25 Mar 2025[29]
Personal development: Outstanding[29]
Quality of education: Outstanding[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[29]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[29]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
16 Oct 2019[30]	Exempt School Inspection[30]	No overall grade[30]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.5 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Applications (any preference): 284 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences: 88 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Places offered: 115 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences per place: 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[31]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	282[31]	82[31]	105[31]	2.7[31]	0.8[31]
Entry Sept 2024	307[31]	75[31]	108[31]	2.8[31]	0.7[31]
Entry Sept 2023	329[31]	98[31]	134[31]	2.5[31]	0.7[31]
Entry Sept 2022	359[31]	94[31]	139[31]	2.6[31]	0.7[31]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Girls[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1150[1]
Trust: HARRIS FEDERATION[1]
Local authority: Southwark[1]
Website: http://www.harrisbermondsey.org.uk/[1]
District: Southwark [32]
Postcode: SE16 3TZ[1]
URN: 131747[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 835 2024/25[33]
English as an additional language: 42% 2024/25[33]
SEN support: 9.2% 2024/25[33]
EHC plan: 1.2% 2024/25[33]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 58.2% 2024/25[33]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 17.4%[34]
Mixed: 10.5%[34]
Asian: 16.8%[34]
Black: 37.8%[34]
Any other ethnic group: 10.2%[34]
Unclassified: 7.3%[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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