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Ark Bolingbroke Academy

Comprehensive

National rank

131

n/a

Rank last year

75.3^%

A-level

49^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Claire Edis

Attendance 93.9%

Gender of entry Mixed

Send pupils* 14.4% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 998

Pupils on free school meals 32.9%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

14.7

27.9

32.6

A*/A

42.6

A*-B

75.3

Grade

9/8

32.5

16.5

9/8/7

What the school inspection says

“Pupils are exceptionally well supported to succeed. The shared ambition for pupils to approach school with ‘courage, compassion, community and excellence’ at its core is fully realised. Staff have very high expectations of all pupils, including those with Send. The school has designed a broad and ambitious curriculum. As a result, pupils develop secure subject knowledge. behaviour and conduct is exemplary. Pupils are polite and courteous. They have highly positive attitudes and behave well in lessons. Consistently high-quality teaching from staff who are experts in their subjects means pupils develop a deep understanding of the subject content.”

Inspection

2024

In detail *

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*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

Bolingbroke is part of the Ark network of 39 schools in London, Birmingham, Hastings and Portsmouth. Ark stands for Absolute Return for Kids.
It became Wandsworth’s first free school when it opened in 2012.
Although the academy is new, it is housed in the historic (and grade II listed) former Bolingbroke hospital. The library, in the old children’s ward, retains the 100-year-old decorative tiles that depict scenes from nursery rhymes.
The school has been named Wandsworth’s happiest school, based on Ofsted data over five years.
The motto Fortiter ubique (Ever courageous) comes from the coat of arms of Canon John Erskine Clarke, founder of Bolingbroke hospital.

info@arkbolingbrokeacademy.org

Telephone

020 7924 8200

Website

arkbolingbrokeacademy.org

Address

Wakehurst Road, Battersea, London, SW11 6BF

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