Bishop Challoner Catholic School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–18
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 44 43.8 2025/26[2]
- A-level average grade
- AL C+ C+ 2024/25[3]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 43.8 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 41.3% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 16.8% 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 | 44.6[5] | 46.2%[5] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- C+ 2024/25[3]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 6.8% 2024/25[3]
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 95% 2022/23[6]
- School sixth form
- 45% 2022/23[6]
- Sixth-form college
- 15% 2022/23[6]
- Further education college
- 29% 2022/23[6]
- Apprenticeship
- 2% 2022/23[6]
- Employment
- 4% 2022/23[6]
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 85% 2022/23[7]
- Education
- 68% 2022/23[7]
- Apprenticeship
- 5% 2022/23[7]
- Employment
- 11% 2022/23[7]
Higher education after 16–18 study
- Progressed to higher education
- 71% 2021/22[8]
- Top third of most selective universities
- 16% 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)
- 181 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences
- 61 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- Places offered
- 90 Entry Sept 2026[9]
- First preferences per place
- 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[9]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy converter[1]
- Ages
- 11–18[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Faith
- Roman Catholic[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 1650[1]
- Trust
- LUX MUNDI CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Tower Hamlets[1]
- Website
- www.bishopchallonerfederation.towerhamlets.sch.uk[1]
- District
- Tower Hamlets[10]
- Postcode
- E1 0LB[1]
- URN
- 150606[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 1034 2024/25[11]
- English as an additional language
- 23.3% 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 16.1% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 3.2% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 56.7% 2024/25[11]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 19.1%[12]
- Mixed
- 14.5%[12]
- Asian
- 20.8%[12]
- Black
- 38.4%[12]
- Any other ethnic group
- 3.2%[12]
- Unclassified
- 3.9%[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
- 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.
- 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.