London Nautical, City of London Academy
Secondary · London · SE1 9NA
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 22 June 2023
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510 pupils · 71% of 720 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 45.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 48.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 7.2% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- londonnautical.cola.org.uk
- URN
- 150889
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.69 first-choice applications per place35 places offered · 24 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
The school offered a place to every applicant in recent years. Distance was not needed to decide places.
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)
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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.
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.