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The Camden School for Girls

Secondary · London · NW5 2DB

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 8 June 2022

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At a glance

1,108 pupils · 100% of 1,040 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
30.3% of pupils
English as additional language
19.5% of pupils
SEN support
15.5% of pupils
EHC plan
1.2% of pupils
Sixth form
Yes
Website
http://www.camdengirls.camden.sch.uk
URN
100054

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

2.19 first-choice applications per place

116 places offered · 254 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

The school offered a place to every applicant in recent years. Distance was not needed to decide places.

Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7

Per-band cutoffs (2026 entry)

A
0.38 miles
B
0.76 miles
C
0.61 miles
D
0.47 miles

Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

117 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
64
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
88.9%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
78.6%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
5.9
England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

A-level results (2024/2025)

A-level points per entry (England: 35 ≈ B-) A-
45
England 35

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
5.4%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
11.7%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
16.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

91% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 7% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£8,768
Typical secondary school£7,799

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
97%
Continuing in education
97%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
0%

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education
54%
Apprenticeship

suppressed (small cohort)

Employment
19%
Any sustained destination
86%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.

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