Nishkam School West London
All-through · Osterley · TW7 5PN
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 24 January 2024
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1,491 pupils · 100% of 1,400 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 4–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Sikh
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 47.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 4.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.2% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.nishkamschooltrust.org
- URN
- 139720
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.04 first-choice applications per place112 places offered · 117 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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 demand: Year 7 entry, September 2025
0.00 first-choice applications per place0 places offered · 2 first-choice applications · usually has places
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: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 1.494 miles
measured by shortest walking route.
Cutoff distance by entry year
Per-band cutoffs (2025 entry)
- faith-keshadhari
- 4.414 miles
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
108 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
108 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. “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)
79% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 16% 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, academy 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
- 24 January 2024: Outstanding
- 14 September 2016: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.