Newstead Wood School

Selective

National rank

22

35=

Rank last year

84.6%

A-level

A-level

A*-B

83.7%

GCSE

GCSE

A*/A/9/8/7

State Secondary State School of the Year in London 2025

Need to know

Head teacher

Alan Blount

Gender of entry

Girls

Total pupils

1,264

Head teacher

Alan Blount

Gender of entry

Girls

Total pupils

1,264

Head teacher

Alan Blount

Gender of entry

Girls

Total pupils

1,264

Progress 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Pupils on free school meals

4.4%

Progress 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Pupils on free school meals

4.4%

Our methodology
Results

A-level 2024 rank: 33

Grade

%

A*

22.5

A

35.7

B

26.4

A*/A

58.2

A*-B

84.6

GCSE 2024 rank: 25

Grade

%

A*/9/8

65.6

A/7

18

A*/A/9/8/7

83.7

What the school inspection says

Date of report
2022
Verdict *
Outstanding
“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.”
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*From September 2024, Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A consultation on the new report cards will take place in 2025.

About the school

  • Quoting Lao Tzu’s famous maxim that your character “becomes your destiny”, the school believes that developing the ability to make good choices, alongside academic attainment, should be the purpose of education.
  • The school has a coeducational sixth form in a designated block with separate study and café facilities. Sixth-formers run 13 lunchtime societies throughout the school, including groups with a focus on Afro-Caribbean or South Asian culture, social justice, feminism and Pride.
  • Over half (57 per cent) of 2024 A-level entries in 2024 were awarded A*-A grades, and 84 per cent achieved A*-B grades. Twelve students headed to Oxbridge colleges.
  • The school upholds values such as a passion for learning, a belief in strength in diversity, open-mindedness and respect.
  • Newstead Wood School is a part of United Learning, which provides education to more than 60,000 students across the country.
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