Cardinal Pole Catholic School
Secondary · London · E9 6LG
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 9 March 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
980 pupils · 86% of 1,140 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 68.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 42.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 18.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.1% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 150604
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.80 first-choice applications per place155 places offered · 124 first-choice applications · usually has places
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
Per-band cutoffs (2026 entry)
- Band A
- 2.696 miles
- Band B
- 0.853 miles
- Band C
- 2.212 miles
- Band D
- 3.456 miles
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)
155 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)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 17% 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
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.