Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,187 pupils
97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.7
Academy sponsor led
Ark Evelyn Grace Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 320of 1,200 places
- Free school meals
- 61.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 81
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 25 February 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Ark Evelyn Grace Academy has no sixth form. Of the 124 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 8% moved to a sixth form college, 32% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 32% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.
11% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 39.9 against 46.1 across England and 45.4 in Lambeth, with 26% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Lambeth and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Ark Evelyn Grace Academy | Lambeth | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 124 | 2,440 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 81% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 79% | 90% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 39% | 51% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 8% | 9% | 13% |
| — further education college | 32% | 27% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 11% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 8% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Ark Evelyn Grace Academy | Lambeth | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 39.9 | 45.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 26% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 52% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 51% | 49% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.77 | 4.10 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 69% | 49% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 38.8 | 39.6 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 42.3 | 50.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 43% | 48% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 81 | 100% | 89% | 14% | 20% | 63% |
| Mathematics | 81 | 100% | 88% | 7% | 22% | 56% |
| English Literature | 80 | 99% | 86% | 10% | 21% | 69% |
| Combined Science | 79 | 98% | 65% | 9% | 9% | 56% |
| Business Studies | 46 | 57% | 18% | 4% | 20% | 50% |
| Spanish | 45 | 56% | 19% | 38% | 27% | 82% |
| Geography | 37 | 46% | 41% | 0% | 25% | 35% |
| History | 30 | 37% | 41% | 20% | 26% | 63% |
| Art and Design | 26 | 32% | 7% | 8% | 24% | 62% |
| Physical Education | 22 | 27% | 11% | 5% | 24% | 45% |
| Religious Studies | 22 | 27% | 31% | 27% | 32% | 77% |
| Drama | 12 | 15% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 67% |
| Music | 8 | 10% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 88% |
| Portuguese | 4 | 5% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Biology | 2 | 2% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Chemistry | 1 | 1% | 23% | — | 47% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| French | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
Other secondary schools in Lambeth
City Heights E-ACT Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 460 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.6
Dunraven School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,744 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,197 pupils
95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.8
Lilian Baylis Technology School
Community school · sixth form · 848 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.3
London Nautical, City of London Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 510 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.5
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.