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Connaught School for Girls
Secondary · Girls · Ages 11–16 · Academy
Dyers Hall Road, Leytonstone, London E11 4AE · connaught-school.co.uk · 020 8539 3029
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 50.6
- average Attainment 8 score. Waltham Forest 45.3, England 46
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Year 7, September 2026 entry · Waltham Forest Council
- Demand for places
- 0.6
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 550
- 87% of 632 places
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 39.6%
- First language not English
- 32.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Waltham Forest Council’s document.
For Year 7 in September 2026, 44 families put the school first and 71 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 71 | 44 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 97 | 69 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 122 | 80 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 128 | 97 | 0.8 | 94% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 131 | 100 | 0.8 | 93% |
Last distance offered
| Year 7 | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2025 | All | |
| September 2024 | 3.40 mi5.48 km | |
| September 2022 | 1.21 mi1.94 km | |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 50.6, and 45% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Waltham Forest it was 45.3, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▲50.6 | 46.0 | ||
| ●45.0% | 45.4% | ||
| ▲69.2% | 64.8% | ||
| ▲96.7% | 40.5% | ||
| ▲4.72 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 19.5 | −7.1 |
| Sixth form college | 64.4 | +2.7 |
| Further education | 11 | +4.7 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 2.5 | +0.2 |
| Activity not captured | 2.5 | +0.2 |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Connaught School for Girls on 25 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 25 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Oct 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Nov 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
25% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (67 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 25%
- Replies
- 67
- 11% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied