Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through School
All-through · London · SE18 5PW
Data updated
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 2 November 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,624 pupils · 87% of 1,860 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 46% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 47.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 16.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 2.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.koinoniafederation.com
- URN
- 100171
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 46 families named it first for 46 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2026 entry went to 5479.78 m (≈3.40 mi); distance decided places in 9 of the 11 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2016 to 2026. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 2 November 2023 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place46 places offered · 46 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2018 entry)
- Open Band (Peninsula site)
- 1175 m (≈0.73 mi)
- Open Band (Woolwich site)
- 1321 m (≈0.82 mi)
2018 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.
How safe is a place here? Check your postcode
One free check a month, no account needed. No cutoff distance applied in 2026, so there is no boundary for your address to be inside of. The check shows how far you live from the school and how many rounds running it has placed every applicant. Premium adds unlimited checks, the nearby schools that do ration places by distance and whether you are inside them, and the address check across every school at once.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →How safe is a place here? Check your postcode Premium
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 5479.78 m (≈3.40 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Premium shows the exact distance behind every year back to 2017.
See what a pass includes →Would you have got in? Check your postcode
One free check a month, no account needed: your postcode against this school's cutoff history. Premium adds unlimited checks, the nearby schools you would be inside, and the address check across every school at once.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Would you have got in? Check your postcode Premium
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: London school admissions · Greenwich school admissions
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
94 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
175 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Hinde House 2-16 Academy | 41.1 | |
| Drayton Manor High School | 56 | |
| Oasis Academy Leesbrook | 41.5 | |
| Swindon Academy | 50.2 | |
| Queen Katharine Academy | 32.5 | |
| Heath Park | 49.3 | |
| Oasis Academy Oldham | 42.8 | |
| Castle Mead Academy | 48 | |
| Greig City Academy | 41.6 | |
| Cantell School | 46.9 | |
| Harris Garrard Academy | 48.1 | |
| Dixons Broadgreen Academy | 34.4 |
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Black African 51% (Greenwich 24%, England 5%) · Any other Black background 8% (Greenwich 4%, England 1%) · White British 7% (Greenwich 29%, England 59%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Greenwich 6%, England 3%) · Any other White background 5% (Greenwich 11%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Black African 4% (Greenwich 3%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 4% (Greenwich 3%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 4% (Greenwich 3%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 3% (Greenwich 4%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 3% (Greenwich 4%, England 3%) · Asian Indian 1% (Greenwich 2%, England 4%) · Not recorded 1% (Greenwich 4%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Greenwich 1%, England 1%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Greenwich 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Greenwich 2%, England 2%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
13.08 suspensions per 100 pupils and 2 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Greenwich: 14.36 suspensions and 0.13 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Suspensions and exclusions, last three years Premium
Premium shows the same figures for each of the last three years.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained secondaries: 0.22% vacant, 0.42% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
81.5% of teachers took sickness absence, 8.7 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £59,251; 7.4% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
Vacancies, sickness and pay, last three years Premium
Premium shows the same figures for each of the last three years.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
Spending per pupil (2025-26)
Where the money went (2025-26)
Share of spending, with the median for all-through schools in brackets: Staff 80% (78%) · premises 5% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 7% (7%) · supplies and services 7% (9%) · educational supplies 2% (4%) · bought-in professional services 4% (2%) · catering 4% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve £392,887; in-year balance -£205,214
Spending and reserves, last three years Premium
Premium shows the same figures for each of the last three years.
Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 1 November 2023: School remains Good
- 22 May 2018: Good
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 4/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 44.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 18% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 30.8% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 23.4% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 54.1% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 27.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 41.8% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 29.9% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 1.6% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 82.2% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 4.9% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 60.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01033737 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £449,000755 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £350,000–£569,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (4.16 km, 2025 entry): 7,137 sales, median £450,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 7an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 22an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 144an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 21an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted