Secondary
Ark Walworth Academy
Shorncliffe Road, London, SE1 5UJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 973 of 1200 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.3
- Local authority
- Southwark
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- ARK SCHOOLS
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 64.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 94.7
- Pupils per adult
- 10.4
- Pupils
- 989
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
44%
9 points below the London average (53% across 239 schools)
43.3
7.8 below the London average (51.1 across 239 schools)
164th of 239 by our score, among the secondary schools in London we can score - 299 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 43.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.02 |
| Entered the EBacc | 73% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 67% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% |
| A level average points per entry | 32.16 |
| A level students | 38 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49% |
| 22/23 | 46% |
| 23/24 | 41% |
| 24/25 | 44% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 31.9 |
| 22/23 | 34.8 |
| 23/24 | 33.8 |
| 24/25 | 32.2 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.03 |
| 22/23 | +0.12 |
| 23/24 | +0.18 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 45.4 |
| 22/23 | 44.1 |
| 23/24 | 41.5 |
| 24/25 | 43.3 |
Shorncliffe Road, London, SE1 5UJ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Southwark admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Jessica West
- Address
- Shorncliffe Road, London, SE1 5UJ
- Telephone
- 02074509570