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London Enterprise Academy

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formTower Hamlets, London · London E1 1RDTrust: Tower Hamlets Enterprise Academy LtdSchool website
Pupils on roll
396of 600 places
Free school meals
26.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
92
Ofsted
Inspected, 1 October 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

London Enterprise Academy has no sixth form. Of the 86 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 7% moved to a sixth form college, 22% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Statistics is unusually popular at GCSE: 50% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 48.0 against 46.1 across England and 47.4 in Tower Hamlets, with 51% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: 1% 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 Tower Hamlets and England.

London Enterprise Academy
Tower Hamlets
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureLondon Enterprise AcademyTower HamletsEngland
Pupils in the cohort863,085607,348
Any sustained destination86%94%92%
Stayed in education85%93%86%
— school sixth form53%64%34%
— sixth form college7%3%13%
— further education college22%23%37%
— other education2%3%2%
Apprenticeship1%1%3%
Employment0%1%3%
No sustained destination8%4%6%
Destination unknown6%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureLondon Enterprise AcademyTower HamletsEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)48.047.446.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths51%48%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths70%67%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects58%54%41%
EBacc average point score4.464.274.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort51%55%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils46.345.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils49.949.450.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language76%47%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics9098%88%20%22%81%
English Language9098%89%16%20%72%
English Literature9098%86%22%21%81%
Religious Studies8896%31%11%32%61%
Combined Science7177%65%10%9%69%
Spanish5054%19%4%27%60%
Statistics4650%5%15%20%91%
Geography4448%41%11%25%43%
History4043%41%28%26%73%
Business Studies2527%18%0%20%56%
Physical Education2123%11%0%24%19%
Chemistry1921%23%68%47%100%
Physics1921%23%37%46%100%
Biology1921%23%53%45%100%
Sociology1617%4%38%21%88%
Fine Art1011%9%0%28%40%
Arabic78%1%43%47%71%
Italian78%0%71%53%100%
Bengali55%0%35%
French22%18%29%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Computer Appreciation / Introduction17
Sports Studies12

Other secondary schools in Tower Hamlets

Bow School

Community school · sixth form · 1,126 pupils

96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2

George Green's School

Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 1,256 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.0

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.