Wren Academy Finchley
All-through · London · N12 9HB
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Last grade Ofsted published, no newer grade exists
Ofsted graded this school Outstanding in 2018. Every inspection since has been ungraded, and an ungraded inspection cannot change a grade. The most recent found “Standards maintained”. Ofsted's current data file lists only graded inspections from September 2019 onwards, so this grade has dropped out of it, but it is still the school's grade of record, and still on Ofsted's own report page. Treat an Outstanding of this age with care: Outstanding schools were exempt from routine re-inspection until 2020, so these grades are among the oldest on record.
Inspected 18 September 2018
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1,623 pupils · 101% of 1,600 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 30.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 9.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 3.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.wrenacademyfinchley.org
- URN
- 135507
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 215 families named it first for 113 Year 7 places, 1.90 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 0.315 miles; distance decided places in 10 of the 11 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2015 to 2025. The last grade Ofsted published for it is Outstanding, from 2018. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.3% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.86 first-choice applications per place57 places offered · 106 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.90 first-choice applications per place113 places offered · 215 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Cutoff by admission criterion (2026 entry)
- Band: Other Christian denomination
- 0.792 miles
- Band: Straight-line distance
- 0.268 miles
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 0.315 miles
measurement method not stated by the council.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2025 entry)
- Faith - Church of England
- 1.079 miles
- Faith - Other Christian Denomination Church
- 0.601 miles
The criteria above are applied in the order the school sets out in its admission arrangements, and distance is the last of them. A wider figure under one of them is not a wider catchment: it is how far the school reached among children who already met that criterion, before distance decided anything. A child living closer than that figure, who met none of those criteria, was still offered a place only within the distance cutoff above.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
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Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
61 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
184 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.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 26% (Barnet 23%, England 59%) · Any other White background 20% (Barnet 20%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 11% (Barnet 7%, England 3%) · Any other ethnic group 10% (Barnet 12%, England 3%) · Asian Indian 6% (Barnet 8%, England 4%) · Asian Chinese 5% (Barnet 2%, England 1%) · Black African 5% (Barnet 8%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Barnet 3%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Barnet 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Barnet 1%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 2% (Barnet 2%, England 5%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Barnet 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Barnet 1%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Barnet 2%, England 1%) · White Irish 1% (Barnet 1%, England 0%) · Asian Bangladeshi 1% (Barnet 1%, England 2%) · other groups together 0%
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)
13.12 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Barnet: 9.29 suspensions and 0.08 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
89% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% moved to another state school · 8% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
75.3% of teachers took sickness absence, 4.9 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 £60,391; 15.2% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Spending per pupil (2024-25)
Where the money went (2024-25)
Share of spending, with the median for all-through schools in brackets: Staff 86% (78%) · premises 2% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 7% (8%) · supplies and services 5% (9%) · educational supplies 5% (6%) · bought-in professional services 0% (1%) · catering 7% (4%)
Reserves (2024-25)
Revenue reserve -£97,000; in-year balance -£1,436,000
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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
- 25 February 2025: Standards maintained
- 18 September 2018: Outstanding
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 46.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 16.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 40.6% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 14.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 54.8% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 67.6% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 8.5% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 23.9% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 5.1% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 34.4% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 33.1% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 23.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01000324 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £515,000409 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £360,000–£770,000the 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.
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
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 5an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 45an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 4an 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
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