William Morris Sixth Form
16 plus · London · W6 8RB
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 11 January 2023
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810 pupils · 90% of 900 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 16–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 0% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 29.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 4.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 7.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- http://www.wmsf.ac.uk
- URN
- 133545
In figures
Ofsted last graded it Good on 11 January 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. It had 810 pupils at the 15 January 2026 census.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Specific Learning Difficulty
- Visual Impairment
- Other Difficulty/Disability
- Hearing Impairment
- Speech, Language and Communication Needs
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Multi-Sensory Impairment
- Physical Disability
- Moderate Learning Difficulty
Provision type: SEN unit.
- SEN unit
- 71 of 70 places taken full, or over capacity
Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
Any other ethnic group 25% (Hammersmith and Fulham 12%, England 3%) · Black African 23% (Hammersmith and Fulham 14%, England 5%) · White British 9% (Hammersmith and Fulham 22%, England 59%) · Any other White background 8% (Hammersmith and Fulham 17%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Hammersmith and Fulham 7%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 6% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 5% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 1%) · Any other Asian background 5% (Hammersmith and Fulham 5%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 2%, England 1%) · Asian Indian 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 4%) · Not recorded 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 5%, England 2%) · Asian Bangladeshi 2% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 2%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Suspensions and exclusions
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
5.49 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Hammersmith and Fulham: 10.89 suspensions and 0.18 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
75% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 17% 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)
62.5% of teachers took sickness absence, 11.7 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 £63,400; 14.3% 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 76% (77%) · premises 5% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (7%) · supplies and services 11% (10%) · educational supplies 7% (6%) · bought-in professional services 3% (2%) · catering 2% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve -£212,013; in-year balance +£253,777
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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
- 11 January 2023: Good
- 27 January 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 24 April 2019: Requires improvement
- 7 February 2017: Requires improvement
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 | 64.5% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 7.9% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 55.3% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 12.8% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 64.8% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 45.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 19.1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 34.8% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 1.2% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 51.6% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 33.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 54.2% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01001889 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £660,0001,203 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £485,000–£1,000,000the 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
- 3an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 26an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 177an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 34an 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