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Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College

Secondary · London · SW6 6BP

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Strong standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Strong standardAchievement: Strong standardAttendance & behaviour: Strong standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Strong standardEarly years: Not applicablePost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 16 June 2026 · report published 16 July 2026

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At a glance

426 pupils · 67% of 634 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
11–16
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
52.7% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
51.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
17% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
2.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
http://www.fulhamcross.net/
URN
139365

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 44 families named it first for 94 Year 7 places, 0.47 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2020 entry went to 2.35 miles; distance decided places in 2 of the 8 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2017 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 16 June 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Strong standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 7% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.47 first-choice applications per place

94 places offered · 44 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

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: Year 7

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2020 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2.35 miles

measured in a straight line.

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

GCSE results (2024/2025)

111 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
57.1
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
75.7%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
54.1%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
5.4
England 4.1

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 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Attainment 8, 2024/2025

This school57.1
Median of its 12 closest peers37.6
Hammersmith and Fulham average57.4
England46.1

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.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Thornhill AcademySunderland · 241 miles awayGood41.4
Christ The King Catholic High SchoolPreston · 188 miles awayNeeds attention35.9
Lammas SchoolLondon · 10 miles awayNeeds attention36.3
Logic Studio SchoolFeltham · 8 miles awayGood (2019)34.2
Weston Secondary SchoolSouthampton · 64 miles awayNeeds attention31.1
Coleridge Community CollegeCambridge · 52 miles awayGood (2019)55.1
The Oaks AcademyCrewe · 146 miles awayGood35.4
Highbury Fields SchoolLondon · 7 miles awayOutstanding57.4
Smestow AcademyWolverhampton · 113 miles awayExpected standard42.6
Trinity AcademyLondon · 4 miles awayGood38.7
St Mary's Catholic High SchoolCroydon · 9 miles awayNeeds attention36.5
Saint Gabriel's CollegeLondon · 5 miles awayGood47.9

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

Any other ethnic group 28% (Hammersmith and Fulham 12%, England 3%) · Black African 14% (Hammersmith and Fulham 14%, England 5%) · White British 10% (Hammersmith and Fulham 22%, England 59%) · Any other Mixed background 7% (Hammersmith and Fulham 7%, England 3%) · Any other White background 7% (Hammersmith and Fulham 17%, England 7%) · Any other Asian background 6% (Hammersmith and Fulham 5%, England 3%) · Not recorded 6% (Hammersmith and Fulham 5%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 5% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 4% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 4% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 3% (Hammersmith and Fulham 3%, England 2%) · Asian Bangladeshi 3% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 3% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 5%) · Asian Indian 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 1%, England 4%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Hammersmith and Fulham 2%, England 1%)

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
7%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
18.6%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

5.74 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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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

Pupils per qualified teacher
15.7
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

75% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 18% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 3.21% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

94.4% of teachers took sickness absence, 4.6 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 £62,826; 14.7% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2024-25)

This school£10,877
Typical secondary school£7,846

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 77% (77%) · premises 8% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (6%) · supplies and services 7% (11%) · educational supplies 3% (6%) · bought-in professional services 1% (1%) · catering 3% (3%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £1,961,000; in-year balance +£723,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
94%
Continuing in education
92%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
2%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.

Inspection history since 2015

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)
4/10more deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher52%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications13.9%18.1%
In managerial or professional work43.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways21.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health56.8%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier36.9%62.3%
Social housing26.4%17.1%
Privately rented36.7%20.5%
Detached houses1.3%22.9%
Flats60.5%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms20.3%21.1%
Households with no car or van54.8%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01001903 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£750,0001,627 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£556,500–£1,185,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (5)£1,375,000
Semi-detached (32)£2,337,500
Terraced (523)£1,350,000
Flat (1067)£625,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (3.78 km, 2020 entry): 14,681 sales, median £785,000. 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
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
22an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
104an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
19an 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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