Haberdashers' Borough Academy[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 49 49.2 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 49.2 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 52.7% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 16.2% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- -0.23 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 5 Mar 2024[6]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[6]
- Report published
- 25 Apr 2024[6]
- Personal development
- Good[6]
- Quality of education
- Good[6]
- Overall effectiveness
- Good[6]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good[6]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[6]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[6]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.9 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- Applications (any preference)
- 517 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- First preferences
- 135 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- Places offered
- 180 Entry Sept 2026[7]
- First preferences per place
- 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[7]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 606[7] | 169[7] | 174[7] | 3.5[7] | 1.0[7] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 524[7] | 115[7] | 170[7] | 3.1[7] | 0.7[7] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 606[7] | 135[7] | 176[7] | 3.4[7] | 0.8[7] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 722[7] | 196[7] | 176[7] | 4.1[7] | 1.1[7] |
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Capacity
- 1150[1]
- Trust
- HABERDASHERS' ASKE'S FEDERATION TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Southwark[1]
- Website
- www.habsborough.org.uk[1]
- District
- Southwark[8]
- Postcode
- SE1 0EX[1]
- URN
- 147073[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 917 2024/25[9]
- English as an additional language
- 30.8% 2024/25[9]
- SEN support
- 17.2% 2024/25[9]
- EHC plan
- 2.9% 2024/25[9]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 56.9% 2024/25[9]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 30.6%[10]
- Mixed
- 18%[10]
- Asian
- 8%[10]
- Black
- 31.9%[10]
- Any other ethnic group
- 7.2%[10]
- Unclassified
- 4.2%[10]
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.
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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.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.
- 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- 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.