Secondary
Darrick Wood School
Lovibonds Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8ER
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1698 of 1825 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
- Local authority
- Bromley
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- HI - Hearing Impairment
- Trust
- IMPACT MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 93.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 139.0
- Pupils per adult
- 12.2
- Pupils
- 1,697
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 May 2024
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
January 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
GCSE results
57%
51.5
3rd of 3 by our score, among the secondary schools in Orpington we can score - 5 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 | 51.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.81 |
| Entered the EBacc | 74% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 79% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 57% |
| A level average points per entry | 32.5 |
| A level students | 157 |
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 | 55% |
| 22/23 | 49% |
| 23/24 | 56% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 36.2 |
| 22/23 | 34.4 |
| 23/24 | 31.6 |
| 24/25 | 32.5 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.03 |
| 22/23 | -0.19 |
| 23/24 | 0.00 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 53.8 |
| 22/23 | 48.7 |
| 23/24 | 50.3 |
| 24/25 | 51.5 |
Lovibonds Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8ER
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.
Bromley 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
- Head Teacher
- Martin Airey
- Address
- Lovibonds Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8ER
- Telephone
- 01689850271