All Saints Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 473 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.1
Free schools
Waterside Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 351of 500 places
- Free school meals
- 65.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 78
- Ofsted
- Report card, 27 January 2026Read the Ofsted report
Curriculum and teaching Strong standardAchievement Strong standardAttendance and behaviour Strong standardPersonal development and wellbeing Strong standardInclusion Strong standardLeadership and governance Strong standardPost-16 provision Not applicableSafeguarding Met
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Hackney New School (URN 139595, until 1 November 2019).
What the data says
Of the 90 pupils who finished Year 11 at Waterside Academy in 2023, 20% moved to a sixth form college, 33% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 35% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.6 against 46.1 across England and 50.5 in Hackney, with 41% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 1% 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 Hackney and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Waterside Academy | Hackney | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 90 | 2,449 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 79% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 78% | 91% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 17% | 53% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 20% | 10% | 13% |
| — further education college | 33% | 26% | 37% |
| — other education | 8% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 13% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Waterside Academy | Hackney | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.6 | 50.5 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 41% | 49% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 62% | 70% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 39% | 61% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.10 | 4.61 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 59% | 54% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 44.3 | 45.0 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 45.1 | 56.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 39% | 42% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religious Studies | 79 | 100% | 31% | 24% | 32% | 66% |
| Combined Science | 78 | 100% | 65% | 23% | 9% | 55% |
| English Language | 78 | 100% | 89% | 12% | 20% | 55% |
| Mathematics | 78 | 100% | 88% | 17% | 22% | 67% |
| English Literature | 78 | 100% | 86% | 24% | 21% | 71% |
| Art and Design | 27 | 35% | 7% | 0% | 24% | 11% |
| Spanish | 25 | 32% | 19% | 36% | 27% | 64% |
| French | 25 | 32% | 18% | 12% | 29% | 64% |
| Drama | 24 | 31% | 7% | 4% | 27% | 29% |
| Computer Science | 23 | 29% | 13% | 17% | 30% | 61% |
| Geography | 17 | 22% | 41% | 71% | 25% | 100% |
| History | 16 | 21% | 41% | 38% | 26% | 69% |
| Turkish | 8 | 10% | 0% | 75% | 71% | 100% |
| Music | 4 | 5% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Portuguese | 3 | 4% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Russian | 2 | 3% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Arabic | 2 | 3% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 19 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 10 | — | — |
Where Waterside Academy is
Other secondary schools in Hackney are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Hackney’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Hackney
Cardinal Pole Catholic School
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91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.9
City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park
Free schools · sixth form · 914 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.3
Clapton Girls' Academy
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92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 59.4
Haggerston School
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89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.7
Lubavitch House School (Senior Girls)
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85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.9
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.