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Canary Wharf Secondary[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 51 51.2 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
51.2 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
55.6% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
18.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.32 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 52.9[5] 57.1%[5]
2023/24 53.4[3] 67.1%[3] +0.32[3]
2022/23 49.6[6] 58%[6] +0.13[6]
2021/22 58[7] 58%[7] +0.45[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
90% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
44% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
8% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
35% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
0% 2022/23[8]
Employment
3% 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 85%[9] 39%[9] 6%[9] 30%[9] 0%[9] 3%[9]
2020/21 87%[10] 39%[10] 5%[10] 42%[10] 0%[10] 0%[10]

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
9 May 2024[11]
Type
S5 Inspection[11]
Report published
26 Jun 2024[11]
Personal development
Requires improvement[11]
Quality of education
Requires improvement[11]
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement[11]
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement[11]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[11]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Requires improvement[11]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
19 Mar 2019[12] S5 Inspection[12] Good[12]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.7 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Applications (any preference)
197 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences
59 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Places offered
74 Entry Sept 2026[13]
First preferences per place
0.8 Entry Sept 2026[13]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 314[13] 81[13] 75[13] 4.2[13] 1.1[13]
Entry Sept 2024 429[13] 153[13] 75[13] 5.7[13] 2.0[13]
Entry Sept 2023 446[13] 148[13] 81[13] 5.5[13] 1.8[13]
Entry Sept 2022 464[13] 158[13] 76[13] 6.1[13] 2.1[13]

Character & practicalities

Type
Free schools[1]
Ages
11–19[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Faith
Christian[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
462[1]
Trust
UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS TRUST, EAST LONDON[1]
Local authority
Tower Hamlets[1]
Website
www.canarywharfcollege.co.uk[1]
District
Tower Hamlets[14]
Postcode
E14 9GL[1]
URN
142879[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
462 2024/25[15]
English as an additional language
27.7% 2024/25[15]
SEN support
21% 2024/25[15]
EHC plan
8% 2024/25[15]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
39.4% 2024/25[15]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
46.3%[16]
Mixed
17.7%[16]
Asian
21.1%[16]
Black
10.1%[16]
Any other ethnic group
4.6%[16]
Unclassified
0.2%[16]

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. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. 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.
  15. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.