Cardinal Pole Catholic School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–19
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 46 46.1 2025/26[2]
- A-level average grade
- AL C+ C+ 2024/25[3]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 46.1 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 49.4% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 11.1% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 42.9[5] | 28.4%[5] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- C+ 2024/25[3]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 4.5% 2024/25[3]
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 91% 2022/23[6]
- School sixth form
- 56% 2022/23[6]
- Sixth-form college
- 11% 2022/23[6]
- Further education college
- 24% 2022/23[6]
- Apprenticeship
- 0% 2022/23[6]
- Employment
- 0% 2022/23[6]
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 97% 2022/23[7]
- UK higher education
- 92% 2022/23[7]
- Education
- 94% 2022/23[7]
- Apprenticeship
- 2% 2022/23[7]
- Employment
- 2% 2022/23[7]
Higher education after 16–18 study
- Progressed to higher education
- 84% 2021/22[8]
- Top third of most selective universities
- 19% 2021/22[8]
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
No published data for this school.
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 2.0 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Applications (any preference)
- 311 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 124 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 155 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences per place
- 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[9]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 306[9] | 108[9] | 138[9] | 2.2[9] | 0.8[9] |
Admissions
- Application deadline
- 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[10]
- Places (published admission number), 11+ entry
- 180 Entry Sept 2027[10]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy converter[1]
- Ages
- 11–19[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Faith
- Roman Catholic[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1140[1]
- Trust
- LUX MUNDI CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Hackney[1]
- Website
- http://www.cardinalpole.co.uk[1]
- District
- Hackney[11]
- Postcode
- E9 6LG[1]
- URN
- 150604[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1052 2024/25[12]
- English as an additional language
- 42.7% 2024/25[12]
- SEN support
- 18.2% 2024/25[12]
- EHC plan
- 3.1% 2024/25[12]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 65.8% 2024/25[12]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 7.7%[13]
- Mixed
- 11.3%[13]
- Asian
- 1.5%[13]
- Black
- 71.7%[13]
- Any other ethnic group
- 3.8%[13]
- Unclassified
- 4%[13]
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: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2024/25, 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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: 16-18 progression to higher education. Period 2021/22, final. 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.
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cardinalpole.co.uk: cardinalpole.co.uk document (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
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If you do not complete and return both these forms by the closing date of Saturday 31st October 2026, the admission authority may be unable to consider your application fully and this may affect your child's chance of being offered a place at the school. (p. 2)
The admission authority has set the school's Published Admissions Number ("PAN") at 180 pupils to Year 7 at Cardinal Pole Catholic School in the school year which begins in September 2027. (p. 1)
- 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.