Ark Greenwich Free School
Free schools · 615 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 68.2
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St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School
- Pupils on roll
- 637of 624 places
- Free school meals
- 15.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 125
- Ofsted
- Good, 29 November 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: St Thomas More Roman Catholic Comprehensive School (URN 100196, until 1 February 2015).
What the data says
St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School has no sixth form. Of the 127 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 5% moved to a sixth form college, 18% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 60.6 against 46.1 across England and 46.9 in Greenwich, with 73% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 34% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 2% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
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 | This school | Greenwich | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 127 | 2,852 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 97% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 94% | 89% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 70% | 53% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 5% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 18% | 14% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Greenwich | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 60.6 | 46.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 73% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 82% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 80% | 48% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.71 | 4.20 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 18% | 32% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 49.5 | 39.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 62.9 | 50.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 14% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 125 | 100% | 88% | 39% | 22% | 82% |
| Religious Studies | 125 | 100% | 31% | 50% | 32% | 90% |
| English Language | 125 | 100% | 89% | 32% | 20% | 90% |
| English Literature | 125 | 100% | 86% | 34% | 21% | 91% |
| History | 80 | 64% | 41% | 44% | 26% | 86% |
| Combined Science | 73 | 58% | 65% | 12% | 9% | 81% |
| French | 62 | 50% | 18% | 19% | 29% | 63% |
| Physics | 52 | 42% | 23% | 81% | 46% | 100% |
| Biology | 52 | 42% | 23% | 77% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 52 | 42% | 23% | 79% | 47% | 100% |
| Geography | 51 | 41% | 41% | 53% | 25% | 98% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 42 | 34% | 8% | 31% | 21% | 93% |
| Spanish | 42 | 34% | 19% | 24% | 27% | 76% |
| Fine Art | 33 | 26% | 9% | 27% | 28% | 91% |
| Physical Education | 30 | 24% | 11% | 30% | 24% | 90% |
| Computer Science | 26 | 21% | 13% | 46% | 30% | 96% |
| Design and Technology | 24 | 19% | 11% | 33% | 23% | 96% |
| Polish | 15 | 12% | 1% | 93% | 84% | 100% |
| Music | 13 | 10% | 5% | 62% | 33% | 92% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% | 3% | — | 22% | — |
| Economics | 3 | 2% | 1% | — | 34% | — |
| Japanese | 2 | 2% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Astronomy | 2 | 2% | 0% | — | 29% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Business Studies | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 20% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 59 | — | — |
| Additional Mathematics FSMQ | 7 | — | — |
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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.