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The Courtyard Islington[1]

Special · ages 13–19

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Results

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GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
1.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
0% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
0% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-3.20 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26
Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25
Not calculated[4]
Earlier years
Year Attainment 8 Grade 5+ in English & maths Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 2[5] 0%[5]
2023/24 0.7[3] 0%[3] -3.20[3]
2022/23 1.3[6] 0%[6] -2.18[6]
2021/22 1.4[7] 0%[7] -2.98[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
100% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
0% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
0% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
5% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
0% 2022/23[8]
Employment
0% 2022/23[8]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 92%[9] 0%[9] 0%[9] 0%[9] 0%[9] 0%[9]
2020/21 91%[10] 9%[10] 0%[10] 9%[10] 0%[10] 0%[10]
2019/20 86%[11] 0%[11] 0%[11] 14%[11] 0%[11] 0%[11]
2018/19 100%[12] 0%[12] 0%[12] 0%[12] 0%[12] 0%[12]

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
21 Feb 2023[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
26 Apr 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
9 May 2017[14] Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[14] Good[14]

Competition to get in

No published data for this school.

Character & practicalities

Type
Free schools special[1]
Ages
13–19[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Sixth form
Yes[1]
Capacity
72[1]
Trust
THE COURTYARD ISLINGTON[1]
Local authority
Islington[1]
Website
www.thecourtyardislington.org[1]
District
Islington[15]
Postcode
N7 8LT[1]
URN
139418[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
68 2024/25[16]
English as an additional language
19.1% 2024/25[16]
SEN support
0% 2024/25[16]
EHC plan
100% 2024/25[16]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
65.5% 2024/25[16]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
43.4%[17]
Mixed
13.2%[17]
Asian
3.9%[17]
Black
25%[17]
Any other ethnic group
6.6%[17]
Unclassified
7.9%[17]

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

  1. Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  2. Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2016/17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  17. Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.