The Charter School Bermondsey[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 44 43.9 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 43.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 44% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 7.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.08 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	Progress 8
2024/25	40.9[5]	32.2%[5]
2023/24	44.6[3]	39.4%[3]	+0.08[3]
2022/23	44.4[6]	37%[6]	+0.29[6]
2021/22	42.5[7]	36%[7]	-0.47[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 85% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 23% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 13% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 42% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 1% 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	86%[9]	21%[9]	5%[9]	48%[9]	1%[9]	8%[9]
2020/21	88%[10]	28%[10]	10%[10]	43%[10]	1%[10]	4%[10]
2019/20	92%[11]	24%[11]	7%[11]	58%[11]	0%[11]	1%[11]
2018/19	88%[12]	23%[12]	16%[12]	43%[12]	2%[12]	4%[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: 16 Nov 2022[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 15 Jan 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
17 May 2017[14]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[14]	Good[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.8 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 306 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 80 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 110 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	302[15]	83[15]	110[15]	2.7[15]	0.8[15]
Entry Sept 2024	357[15]	89[15]	114[15]	3.1[15]	0.8[15]
Entry Sept 2023	258[15]	74[15]	112[15]	2.3[15]	0.7[15]
Entry Sept 2022	238[15]	58[15]	107[15]	2.2[15]	0.5[15]

Admissions

Places (published admission number), 11+ entry: 120 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Capacity: 600[1]
Trust: THE CHARTER SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL TRUST[1]
Local authority: Southwark[1]
Website: http://www.charterbermondsey.org.uk [1]
District: Southwark [17]
Postcode: SE16 4EE[1]
URN: 139587[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 470 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 22.1% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 27.7% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 7.2% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 63.6% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 54.9%[19]
Mixed: 11.5%[19]
Asian: 3.2%[19]
Black: 22.3%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 7.6%[19]
Unclassified: 0.4%[19]

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

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.
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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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cdn.prod.website-files.com: cdn.prod.website-files.com — 6ab28bdcf3c22e9d5b3af117 TCSB Admissions Policy Sep 2026 27 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
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The Charter School Bermondsey has a Planned Admission Number (PAN) of 120 pupils for Year 7 entry September 2026. (p. 5)
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.
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