Sedgehill Academy[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 52 51.9 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B- B- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 51.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 65.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 15.5% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.20 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	Progress 8
2024/25	43.9[6]	41.6%[6]
2023/24	45.1[4]	40.4%[4]	+0.20[4]
2022/23	46.7[7]	50%[7]	+0.20[7]
2021/22	50.5[8]	55%[8]	+0.51[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 11.1% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	D+[9]
2022/23	C+[10]	33.3%[10]
2021/22	B-[11]	0%[11]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 90% 2022/23[12]
School sixth form: 48% 2022/23[12]
Sixth-form college: 15% 2022/23[12]
Further education college: 23% 2022/23[12]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[12]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[12]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	91%[13]	45%[13]	12%[13]	29%[13]	1%[13]	3%[13]
2020/21	93%[14]	43%[14]	17%[14]	31%[14]	1%[14]	1%[14]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 74% 2022/23[15]
Education: 56% 2022/23[15]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[15]
Employment: 16% 2022/23[15]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	84%[16]	55%[16]	5%[16]	24%[16]
2020/21	80%[17]	61%[17]	2%[17]	17%[17]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 64% 2021/22[18]
Top third of most selective universities: 12% 2021/22[18]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities
2020/21	70%[19]	15%[19]

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: 28 Sep 2022[20]
Type: Academy First Section 5[20]
Report published: 7 Dec 2022[20]
Personal development: Good[20]
Quality of education: Good[20]
Overall effectiveness: Good[20]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[20]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[20]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[20]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[20]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.6 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Applications (any preference): 634 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences: 168 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Places offered: 176 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[21]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	629[21]	146[21]	173[21]	3.6[21]	0.8[21]
Entry Sept 2024	569[21]	141[21]	174[21]	3.3[21]	0.8[21]
Entry Sept 2023	544[21]	121[21]	175[21]	3.1[21]	0.7[21]
Entry Sept 2022	417[21]	91[21]	163[21]	2.6[21]	0.6[21]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1711[1]
Trust: UNITED LEARNING TRUST[1]
Local authority: Lewisham[1]
Website: www.sedgehillschool.co.uk [1]
District: Lewisham [22]
Postcode: SE6 3QW[1]
URN: 148003[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 900 2024/25[23]
English as an additional language: 37.3% 2024/25[23]
SEN support: 14.4% 2024/25[23]
EHC plan: 2.2% 2024/25[23]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 47.7% 2024/25[23]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 35.6%[24]
Mixed: 19.6%[24]
Asian: 5.8%[24]
Black: 32.3%[24]
Any other ethnic group: 4.3%[24]
Unclassified: 2.4%[24]

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

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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.
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