Results
A-level 2025 rank: 272=
Grade
%
A*/A
29
A*-B
61
GCSE 2025 rank: 260=
Grade
%
9/8/7
36
Central Foundation Boys’ School
Comprehensive
National rank
267=
244=
Rank last year
61%
A-level
36%
GCSE
Need to know
Head teacher
Jamie Brownhill
Attendance
93.6%
Gender of entry
Boys
Send pupils*
30.6%
*Special educational needs and disabilities
Total pupils
1,133
Pupils on free school meals
46.6%
Progress 8
WELL ABOVE AVERAGE
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
What the school inspection says
“The head teacher, together with governors and leaders at all levels, has brought about rapid improvements in the school’s performance since the last inspection ... The students’ achievement in English, mathematics and science is particularly strong ... The many activities outside the classroom are much appreciated by students. Music and sport are particularly strong ... The school promotes students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development exceptionally well. Leaders are very diligent in ensuring that extremism has no place within the school. Students are very well prepared for life in modern Britain.”
Inspection
2015
In detail
*
Read the full report
*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.
Telephone
020 7253 3741
Website
centralfoundationboys.co.uk
Address
Cowper Street,
Shoreditch,
London,
EC2A 4SH