Gunnersbury Catholic School
Secondary · Brentford · TW8 9LB
Data updated
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.
Inspected 17 January 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,248 pupils · 102% of 1,228 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 18.1% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 16.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 11.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 1.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- http://www.gunnersbury.com/
- URN
- 102545
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 139 families named it first for 184 Year 7 places, 0.76 first choices per place. We hold 11 Year 7 admissions rounds for it, 2015 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Outstanding on 17 January 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.76 first-choice applications per place184 places offered · 139 first-choice applications · usually has places
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. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2022 entry)
- All other deaneries
- 10.623 miles
- Deanery Brent (grouped deaneries)
- 6.477 miles
- Deanery Ealing
- 4.937 miles
- Deanery Hammersmith & Fulham
- 6.612 miles
- Deanery Harrow (grouped deaneries)
- 9.769 miles
- Deanery Hillingdon (grouped deaneries)
- 9.374 miles
- Deanery Hounslow
- 7.532 miles
- Deanery Kensington & Chelsea
- 7.58 miles
- Deanery Mortlake (grouped deaneries)
- 6.292 miles
- Deanery Upper Thames
- 10.235 miles
2022 is the most recent year we hold a cutoff for this school. It describes that year, not 2026.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Hounslow school admissions
GCSE results (2024/2025)
181 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 ahead of 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Ward Academy | 43.8 | |
| St Anthony's Girls' Catholic Academy | 50.7 | |
| Cox Green School | 45.9 | |
| The Howard School | 45.2 | |
| Boston Spa Academy | 55.6 | |
| Samuel Ryder Academy | 56.5 | |
| Kingsthorpe College | 39.6 | |
| St Ivo Academy | 47.1 | |
| The Thomas Adams School | 43.4 | |
| Midhurst Rother College | 48.8 | |
| Longsands Academy | 48.5 | |
| St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester | 44.9 |
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Any other White background 25% (Hounslow 12%, England 7%) · White British 22% (Hounslow 13%, England 59%) · Black African 12% (Hounslow 9%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 9% (Hounslow 12%, England 3%) · Asian Indian 7% (Hounslow 24%, England 4%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Hounslow 6%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 4% (Hounslow 6%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 3% (Hounslow 2%, England 2%) · White Irish 3% (Hounslow 0%, England 0%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Hounslow 1%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Hounslow 1%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Hounslow 2%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Hounslow 8%, England 5%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Hounslow 1%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 1% (Hounslow 1%, England 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)
10.92 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Hounslow: 10.11 suspensions and 0.18 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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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)
80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 12% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 3.98% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained secondaries: 0.22% vacant, 0.42% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
73.8% of teachers took sickness absence, 5.7 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 £60,196; 10.3% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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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 secondary schools in brackets: Staff 81% (77%) · premises 5% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 4% (7%) · supplies and services 10% (10%) · educational supplies 6% (6%) · bought-in professional services 3% (2%) · catering 1% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve £148,873; in-year balance +£11,286
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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
- 17 January 2023: Outstanding
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 52.8% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 11.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 44.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 11.7% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 55.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 64.6% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 10.5% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 24.8% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 3.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 39.9% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 33.1% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 27.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01002563 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £600,000586 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £415,000–£825,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
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
- 4an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 7an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 39an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 14an 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