All Hallows Catholic School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,514 pupils
98% stayed in education · Attainment 8 56.2
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Thamesmead School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,054of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 17.0%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 201
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 17 November 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Thamesmead School (URN 125310, until 1 August 2011).
What the data says
Thamesmead School has no sixth form. Of the 193 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 45% moved to a sixth form college, 36% to a further education college and 6% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 45% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 38% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 50.6 against 46.1 across England and 50.8 in Surrey, with 51% 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 Surrey and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Thamesmead School | Surrey | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 193 | 11,758 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 96% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 90% | 89% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 29% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 45% | 32% | 13% |
| — further education college | 36% | 26% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 6% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Thamesmead School | Surrey | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 50.6 | 50.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 51% | 55% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 75% | 74% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 20% | 44% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.31 | 4.55 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 14% | 15% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 40.4 | 32.6 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 52.3 | 54.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 8% | 12% | 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 | 201 | 100% | 89% | 24% | 20% | 75% |
| Mathematics | 201 | 100% | 88% | 21% | 22% | 78% |
| English Literature | 197 | 98% | 86% | 21% | 21% | 79% |
| Religious Studies | 189 | 94% | 31% | 32% | 32% | 70% |
| Combined Science | 133 | 66% | 65% | 12% | 9% | 64% |
| Geography | 118 | 59% | 41% | 24% | 25% | 62% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 77 | 38% | 8% | 9% | 21% | 68% |
| Physical Education | 73 | 36% | 11% | 3% | 24% | 36% |
| Physics | 63 | 31% | 23% | 40% | 46% | 92% |
| Chemistry | 63 | 31% | 23% | 38% | 47% | 92% |
| Biology | 63 | 31% | 23% | 38% | 45% | 95% |
| History | 57 | 28% | 41% | 37% | 26% | 68% |
| Spanish | 45 | 22% | 19% | 49% | 27% | 89% |
| Art and Design | 41 | 20% | 7% | 27% | 24% | 93% |
| Drama | 33 | 16% | 7% | 21% | 27% | 73% |
| Computer Science | 32 | 16% | 13% | 31% | 30% | 78% |
| Design and Technology | 19 | 9% | 11% | 26% | 23% | 89% |
| Music | 16 | 8% | 5% | 44% | 33% | 88% |
| French | 8 | 4% | 18% | 88% | 29% | 100% |
| Russian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Portuguese | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Polish | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additional Mathematics FSMQ | 20 | — | — |
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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.