Ark Evelyn Grace Academy
Academy sponsor led · 320 pupils
79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.9
Community special school
Elm Court School
- Pupils on roll
- 155of 179 places
- Free school meals
- 54.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 22
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 16 October 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 22 pupils who finished Year 11 at Elm Court School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Elm Court School’s own sixth form (Lambeth average 51%), 41% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
14% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Languages are a small part of the curriculum here: entries in Spanish add up to 9% of the year group, and 0% of pupils entered the full EBacc set of subjects (England 41%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lambeth and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Elm Court School | Lambeth | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 22 | 2,440 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 82% | 91% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 82% | 90% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 51% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 9% | 13% |
| — further education college | 41% | 27% | 37% |
| — other education | 41% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 14% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 5% | 4% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Elm Court School | Lambeth | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 0.5 | 45.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 49% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.04 | 4.10 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 86% | 49% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 39.6 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 50.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 23% | 48% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | 3 | 14% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Mathematics | 2 | 9% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
| Spanish | 2 | 9% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
Other secondary schools in Lambeth
Bishop Thomas Grant Catholic Secondary School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,187 pupils
97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.7
City Heights E-ACT Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 460 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.6
Dunraven School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,744 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.7
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,197 pupils
95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.8
Lilian Baylis Technology School
Community school · sixth form · 848 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.3
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.