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Waldegrave School, Twickenham

Comprehensive

National rank

100

138

Rank last year

78^%

A-level

53^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Elizabeth Tongue

Attendance 94.0%

Gender of entry Girls

Send pupils* 23.0% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 1,467

Pupils on free school meals 10.2%

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

A*/A

A*-B

Grade

9/8/7

What the school inspection says

“Staff at this school are passionate and highly dedicated. Parents and carers value the strong emphasis placed on personal development as well as academic excellence. The school has exceptionally high expectations for all pupils. These are reflected in consistently high published outcomes. Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (Send), make strong progress and play a full part in the life of the school … Lunchtime and after-school clubs meet a wide range of interests. These include both sports and creative opportunities. For example, many pupils learn a musical instrument … The school has embedded an ambitious and rich curriculum across the school including in the popular and successful sixth form.”

Inspection

2024

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

Waldegrave School was formed in 1980 by the merger of two girls' schools — Twickenham and Kneller — and has a coeducational sixth form.
Stem subjects continue to be a strong suit at the school, a former specialist science college.
“Enjoy, achieve and empower” are the values underpinning a broad and demanding curriculum and stimulating enrichment programme. About three quarters of students in Year 9-11 complete their bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, and a significant number go on to the next level. Everyone takes part in charity work through house or whole-school campaigns.
Popular sports include rugby football, netball, rounders, athletics and cross-country. Music tuition and after-school Spanish or German classes are available.
Alumni include the former Labour MP Caroline Flint and Jasmine Whitbread, the businesswoman and former head of Save the Children. The school’s range of buildings — dating from the 1920s and 1960s-70s with many modern additions — have been the location for films including Shirley Valentine (1989) and Before I Go to Sleep (2014).

info@waldegravesch.org

Telephone

020 8894 3244

Website

waldegrave.richmond.sch.uk

Address

Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, London, TW2 5LH

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