Voluntary aided school

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School

Girls · ages 11–16 · no sixth form · JewishHackney, London · London N16 6UBSchool website
Pupils on roll
380of 400 places
Free school meals
4.0%
Year 11 cohort 2025
82
Ofsted
Good, 8 May 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School has no sixth form. Of the 63 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 75% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 59.0 against 46.1 across England and 50.5 in Hackney, with 71% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Chemistry is unusually popular at GCSE: 96% of the year group took it, against 23% of pupils across England.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 2% went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Hackney and England.

This school
Hackney
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolHackneyEngland
Pupils in the cohort632,449607,348
Any sustained destination81%92%92%
Stayed in education79%91%86%
— school sixth form5%53%34%
— sixth form college0%10%13%
— further education college75%26%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment2%1%3%
No sustained destination3%5%6%
Destination unknown16%4%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolHackneyEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)59.050.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths71%49%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths90%70%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects20%61%41%
EBacc average point score4.594.614.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort2%54%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils45.034.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils56.950.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language17%42%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language82100%89%21%20%85%
Mathematics82100%88%52%22%96%
English Literature82100%86%18%21%89%
Geography8199%41%44%25%91%
Chemistry7996%23%35%47%94%
Other Classical Languages6883%0%76%54%97%
History6680%41%35%26%94%
Business Studies3543%18%26%20%97%
Physics2632%23%85%46%100%
Computer Science2024%13%70%30%95%
Art and Design2024%7%35%24%85%
Photography1417%6%14%19%86%
Modern Hebrew911%0%100%83%100%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Childcare Skills6
Computer Science1

Other secondary schools in Hackney

Clapton Girls' Academy

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,169 pupils

92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 59.4

Haggerston School

Academy converter · sixth form · 939 pupils

89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.7

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.