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Newstead Wood School

Selective

National rank

Rank last year

77.3^%

A-level

87.9^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Alan Blount

Attendance 97.0%

Gender of entry Girls

Send pupils* 14.7% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,264

Pupils on free school meals 6.7%

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

15.9

32.7

28.7

A*/A

48.6

A*-B

77.3

Grade

9/8

72.1

15.8

9/8/7

87.9

What the school inspection says

“Pupils thrive here. They are happy and safe in the school’s nurturing environment. Behaviour is exemplary. Leaders have high expectations for every pupil. These expectations are realised through the ambitious academic curriculum, and time spent fostering pupils’ wellbeing. Leaders build rich extracurricular opportunities into the school day for all pupils. Students in the sixth form run societies, including feminist and LGBTQ societies. Through the wider curriculum, pupils engage in a number of opportunities. These include the performing arts, volunteering at a local primary school and learning about mindfulness and meditation.”

Inspection

2022

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.

About the school

Newstead Wood was founded as Orpington Grammar School for Girls in 1957. It has been an academy since 2011 and is part of the United Learning group.
The school’s motto is Fortitudine crescamus (“May we grow in strength”).
Newstead focuses on “character education”, encouraging articulacy, resilience, leadership, teamwork, integrity, friendship and service, as well as academic development.
The music department offers a composition programme with weekly sessions for talented pupils in years 8 and 9, as well as wider performance opportunities for students throughout the year.
After-school and lunchtime clubs range from Japanese and beekeeping, to poetry and archaeology.
Newstead Wood School was awarded State Secondary State School of the Year in London 2025

office@newsteadwood.co.uk

Telephone

01689 853 626

Website

newsteadwood.co.uk

Address

Avebury Avenue, Orpington, BR6 9SA

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