Voluntary aided school

Addey and Stanhope School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formLewisham, London · London SE14 6TJSchool website
Pupils on roll
589of 600 places
Free school meals
53.5%
Year 11 cohort 2025
121
Ofsted
School remains Good, 27 September 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Addey and Stanhope School has no sixth form. Of the 117 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 52% moved to a sixth form college, 17% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 52% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 32% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 41.1 against 46.1 across England and 46.7 in Lewisham, with 34% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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 Lewisham and England.

Addey and Stanhope School
Lewisham
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureAddey and Stanhope SchoolLewishamEngland
Pupils in the cohort1172,282607,348
Any sustained destination90%93%92%
Stayed in education89%91%86%
— school sixth form18%43%34%
— sixth form college52%24%13%
— further education college17%19%37%
— other education2%4%2%
Apprenticeship1%1%3%
Employment0%1%3%
No sustained destination9%4%6%
Destination unknown2%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureAddey and Stanhope SchoolLewishamEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)41.146.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths34%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths53%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects11%54%41%
EBacc average point score3.394.304.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort46%38%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils38.337.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils43.552.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language57%30%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Literature11696%86%12%21%71%
English Language11696%89%9%20%61%
Mathematics11595%88%10%22%60%
Combined Science10083%65%8%9%51%
Citizenship Studies6050%3%18%19%85%
Business Studies4134%18%7%20%66%
Food Preparation and Nutrition3932%8%3%21%38%
Geography3831%41%16%25%68%
History3731%41%11%26%43%
Spanish1815%19%28%27%67%
Physical Education1714%11%18%24%35%
Physics1512%23%20%46%93%
Chemistry1512%23%40%47%100%
Computer Science1512%13%40%30%87%
Biology1512%23%27%45%87%
French1210%18%33%29%100%
Fine Art119%9%18%28%82%
Design and Technology119%11%9%23%27%
Drama97%7%22%27%78%
Russian11%0%87%
Polish11%1%84%
Chinese11%1%75%
Turkish11%0%71%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Music performance: Group16

Other secondary schools in Lewisham

Forest Hill School

Community school · sixth form · 1,080 pupils

90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.3

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.