Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School
Secondary · London · N16 6UB
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 8 May 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
380 pupils · 95% of 400 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Girls
- Religious character
- Jewish
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 6.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 7.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.3% of pupils
- Website
- yesodeyhatorah.org
- URN
- 133599
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place79 places offered · 79 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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: Year 7
The council does not publish a cutoff distance for this school.
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)
82 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.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 20% 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
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
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 8 May 2024: Good
- 19 October 2021: Requires improvement
- 7 April 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 3
- 22 January 2020: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 13 December 2018: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 6 March 2018: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.