Secondary
Saint John Bosco College
Parkham Street, Battersea, London, SW11 3DQ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 828 of 1050 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.2
- Local authority
- Wandsworth
- Religious character
- Yes
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Southwark
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 69.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 98.2
- Pupils per adult
- 8.6
- Pupils
- 844
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 October 2022
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
30%
23 points below the London average (53% across 239 schools)
43.5
7.6 below the London average (51.1 across 239 schools)
191st 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 | 43.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.71 |
| Entered the EBacc | 29% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 62% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 30% |
| A level average points per entry | 30.5 |
| A level students | 56 |
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 | 45% |
| 22/23 | 38% |
| 23/24 | 30% |
| 24/25 | 30% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 29.7 |
| 22/23 | 28.2 |
| 23/24 | 26.2 |
| 24/25 | 30.5 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.06 |
| 22/23 | -0.10 |
| 23/24 | +0.17 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 44.6 |
| 22/23 | 43.7 |
| 23/24 | 44.0 |
| 24/25 | 43.5 |
Parkham Street, Battersea, London, SW11 3DQ
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.
Wandsworth 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
- Headteacher
- Paul Dunne
- Address
- Parkham Street, Battersea, London, SW11 3DQ
- Telephone
- 02079248310