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Notre Dame Catholic Girls' School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 44 44.4 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
44.4 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
32.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
8.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.25 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 42.8[5] 32.8%[5]
2023/24 44.8[3] 39.5%[3] +0.25[3]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
97% 2022/23[6]
School sixth form
58% 2022/23[6]
Sixth-form college
22% 2022/23[6]
Further education college
14% 2022/23[6]
Apprenticeship
1% 2022/23[6]
Employment
2% 2022/23[6]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 97%[7] 44%[7] 36%[7] 16%[7] 0%[7] 1%[7]

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
19 Mar 2024[8]
Type
S5 Inspection[8]
Report published
13 May 2024[8]
Personal development
Good[8]
Quality of education
Requires improvement[8]
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement[8]
Behaviour and attitudes
Good[8]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[8]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Requires improvement[8]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
3.0 Entry Sept 2026[9]
Applications (any preference)
93 Entry Sept 2026[9]
First preferences
19 Entry Sept 2026[9]
Places offered
31 Entry Sept 2026[9]
First preferences per place
0.6 Entry Sept 2026[9]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 140[9] 18[9] 41[9] 3.4[9] 0.4[9]
Entry Sept 2024 188[9] 32[9] 61[9] 3.1[9] 0.5[9]
Entry Sept 2023 178[9] 31[9] 44[9] 4.0[9] 0.7[9]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Girls[1]
Faith
Roman Catholic[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
620[1]
Trust
ST OSCAR ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority
Southwark[1]
Website
http://www.notredame.southwark.sch.uk/[1]
District
Southwark[10]
Postcode
SE1 6EX[1]
URN
149369[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
445 2024/25[11]
English as an additional language
22.5% 2024/25[11]
SEN support
3.8% 2024/25[11]
EHC plan
4.3% 2024/25[11]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
53.7% 2024/25[11]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
9%[12]
Mixed
11%[12]
Asian
4.8%[12]
Black
65.3%[12]
Any other ethnic group
9%[12]
Unclassified
0.8%[12]

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 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. 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.