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Park Academy West London[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 38 38.1 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade
AL C+ C+ 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
38.1 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
32.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
5.5% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.30 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 38.5[6] 37.1%[6]
2023/24 41.2[4] 38.6%[4] -0.30[4]
2022/23 39.1[7] 23%[7] -0.53[7]
2021/22 43.6[8] 28%[8] -0.13[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade
C+ 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
0% 2023/24[9]
All results, 2020/21
Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[10]
All results, 2019/20
Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[10]
Earlier years
Year A-level average grade AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24 D+[9] 0%[9]
2022/23 D+[11] 8.3%[11]
2021/22 D+[12] 0%[12]
2018/19 D+[13] 5.6%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form
40% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college
0% 2022/23[14]
Further education college
41% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship
6% 2022/23[14]
Employment
4% 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 90%[15] 38%[15] 0%[15] 46%[15] 3%[15] 2%[15]
2020/21 91%[16] 45%[16] 3%[16] 36%[16] 4%[16] 2%[16]
2019/20 90%[17] 37%[17] 0%[17] 43%[17] 2%[17] 7%[17]
2018/19 96%[18] 37%[18] 2%[18] 50%[18] 5%[18] 3%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
84% 2022/23[19]
Education
64% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship
4% 2022/23[19]
Employment
16% 2022/23[19]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment Education Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 75%[20] 47%[20] 0%[20] 28%[20]
2019/20 80%[21] 50%[21] 7%[21] 23%[21]
2018/19 87%[22] 60%[22] 1%[22] 25%[22]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education
61% 2021/22[23]
Top third of most selective universities
3% 2021/22[23]
Russell Group universities
9% 2019/20[24]
Oxford or Cambridge
0% 2019/20[24]
Earlier leavers
Left in Progressed to higher education Top third of most selective universities Russell Group universities Oxford or Cambridge
2019/20 73%[24] 14%[24] 9%[24] 0%[24]
2018/19 67%[25] 11%[25] 11%[25] 0%[25]
2017/18 54%[26] 7%[26] 7%[26] 0%[26]

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 Jul 2025[27]
Type
Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1[27]
Report published
17 Sep 2025[27]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement[27]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
29 Nov 2023[28] Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[28] Requires improvement[28]
13 Nov 2019[29] Academy First Section 5[29] Requires improvement[29]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.4 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Applications (any preference)
236 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences
82 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Places offered
174 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences per place
0.5 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 211[30] 55[30] 153[30] 1.4[30] 0.4[30]
Entry Sept 2024 250[30] 92[30] 171[30] 1.5[30] 0.5[30]
Entry Sept 2023 277[30] 112[30] 160[30] 1.7[30] 0.7[30]
Entry Sept 2022 280[30] 99[30] 164[30] 1.7[30] 0.6[30]

Admissions

Places (published admission number)
180 Entry Sept 2026[31]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages
11–18[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
Yes[1]
Capacity
1150[1]
Trust
ASPIRATIONS ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
Local authority
Hillingdon[1]
Website
www.park-aspirations.org[1]
District
Hillingdon[32]
Postcode
UB8 3GA[1]
URN
145121[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
852 2024/25[33]
English as an additional language
42.8% 2024/25[33]
SEN support
17.1% 2024/25[33]
EHC plan
3.9% 2024/25[33]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
49.6% 2024/25[33]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
48.8%[34]
Mixed
11.2%[34]
Asian
24.3%[34]
Black
7.8%[34]
Any other ethnic group
5.9%[34]
Unclassified
2%[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.

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.
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    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.
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    Quote
    Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, and alternative processes were set up to award grades.
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    Quote
    Park Academy has an agreed admission number of 180 students. (p. 1)
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