Ark King Solomon Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,319 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.3
Free schools special
The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School
- Pupils on roll
- 71of 70 places
- Free school meals
- 61.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 14
- Ofsted
- Improved significantly, 24 April 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School has no sixth form. Of the 13 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 38% moved to a sixth form college, 46% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 3.7 against 46.1 across England and 53.2 in Westminster, with 7% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 38% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% 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 Westminster and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Westminster | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 13 | 1,772 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 64% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 38% | 7% | 13% |
| — further education college | 46% | 19% | 37% |
| — other education | 8% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Westminster | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 3.7 | 53.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 7% | 58% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 7% | 74% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 68% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.29 | 4.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 57% | 43% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 2.3 | 45.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 5.7 | 58.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 21% | 51% | 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 | 4 | 29% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
| English Language | 3 | 21% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
| Computer Science | 1 | 7% | 13% | — | 30% | — |
| Combined Science | 1 | 7% | 65% | — | 9% | — |
Other secondary schools in Westminster
Harris Academy St John's Wood
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,326 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
Marylebone Academy
Free schools · sixth form · 561 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.6
Paddington Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,256 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 61.6
Pimlico Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,079 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.2
St Augustine's Federated Schools: CE High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 953 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.3
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.