Community special school

New Woodlands School

Mixed · ages 5–16Lewisham, London · Bromley BR1 5PDSchool website
Pupils on roll
101of 108 places
Free school meals
80.2%
Year 11 cohort 2025
14
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 5 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 14 pupils who finished Year 11 at New Woodlands School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 79% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

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.

New Woodlands School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 1.4, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

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.

New Woodlands School
Lewisham
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureNew Woodlands SchoolLewishamEngland
Pupils in the cohort142,282607,348
Any sustained destination86%93%92%
Stayed in education86%91%86%
— school sixth form0%43%34%
— sixth form college0%24%13%
— further education college79%19%37%
— other education7%4%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment0%1%3%
No sustained destination7%4%6%
Destination unknown7%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureNew Woodlands SchoolLewishamEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)1.446.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%54%41%
EBacc average point score0.124.304.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort79%38%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils37.934.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils52.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%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
Mathematics536%88%22%

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.