Eltham Hill School
Community school · sixth form · 1,350 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.3
Free schools
Ark Greenwich Free School
- Pupils on roll
- 615of 600 places
- Free school meals
- 41.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 102
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 25 April 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Ark Greenwich Free School has no sixth form. Of the 110 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 20% moved to a sixth form college, 1% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 68.2 against 46.1 across England and 46.9 in Greenwich, with 90% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 35% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none 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 Greenwich and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Ark Greenwich Free School | Greenwich | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 110 | 2,852 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 94% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 94% | 89% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 73% | 53% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 20% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 1% | 14% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 4% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Ark Greenwich Free School | Greenwich | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 68.2 | 46.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 90% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 98% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 71% | 48% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 6.46 | 4.20 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 28% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 62.6 | 39.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 70.3 | 50.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 23% | 28% | 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 | 102 | 100% | 89% | 40% | 20% | 97% |
| Mathematics | 102 | 100% | 88% | 47% | 22% | 98% |
| English Literature | 102 | 100% | 86% | 58% | 21% | 100% |
| Religious Studies | 100 | 98% | 31% | 70% | 32% | 99% |
| Combined Science | 86 | 84% | 65% | 38% | 9% | 93% |
| History | 82 | 80% | 41% | 84% | 26% | 100% |
| Geography | 43 | 42% | 41% | 81% | 25% | 98% |
| French | 42 | 41% | 18% | 43% | 29% | 100% |
| Photography | 36 | 35% | 6% | 56% | 19% | 100% |
| Spanish | 32 | 31% | 19% | 41% | 27% | 100% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 21% | 13% | 90% | 30% | 100% |
| Biology | 16 | 16% | 23% | 100% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 16 | 16% | 23% | 100% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 16 | 16% | 23% | 94% | 46% | 100% |
| Drama | 11 | 11% | 7% | 73% | 27% | 100% |
| Art and Design | 10 | 10% | 7% | 60% | 24% | 100% |
| Music | 5 | 5% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Physical Education | 4 | 4% | 11% | — | 24% | — |
| Portuguese | 2 | 2% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Chinese | 2 | 2% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
Other secondary schools in Greenwich
Harris Academy Greenwich
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,138 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.9
Leigh Academy Blackheath
Free schools · sixth form · 1,060 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.0
Leigh Academy Halley
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 987 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.4
Leigh Stationers' Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,764 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.7
Plumstead Manor School
Community school · sixth form · 1,413 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.4
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.