Carshalton Boys Sports College
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,539 pupils
86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.0
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Wandle Valley Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 89of 80 places
- Free school meals
- 77.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 19
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 16 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Wandle Valley School (URN 103026, until 1 September 2011).
What the data says
Of the 15 pupils who finished Year 11 at Wandle Valley Academy in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 40% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 2.2 against 46.1 across England and 59.3 in Sutton, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
20% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 7% 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 Sutton and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Wandle Valley Academy | Sutton | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 15 | 3,278 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 53% | 96% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 47% | 94% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 68% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 4% | 13% |
| — further education college | 40% | 20% | 37% |
| — other education | 7% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 7% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 20% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 27% | 1% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Wandle Valley Academy | Sutton | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 2.2 | 59.3 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 68% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 82% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 57% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.10 | 5.47 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 79% | 19% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 41.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 63.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 11% | 29% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 7 | 37% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 14% |
| Physical Education | 7 | 37% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 0% |
| English Language | 5 | 26% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
Other secondary schools in Sutton
Carshalton High School for Girls
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93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.4
Cheam High School
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86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.7
Glenthorne High School
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94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 61.6
Greenshaw High School
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92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.7
Harris Academy Sutton
Free schools · sixth form · 1,294 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.2
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.