Bishop Challoner Catholic School
Academy converter · sixth form · 867 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.6
Community special school
Bowden House School
- Pupils on roll
- 39of 40 places
- Free school meals
- 73.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 10
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 7 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 10 pupils who finished Year 11 at Bowden House School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Bowden House School’s own sixth form (Tower Hamlets average 64%), 60% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 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.
Bowden House School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 11.1, 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 Tower Hamlets and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Bowden House School | Tower Hamlets | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 10 | 3,085 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 90% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 90% | 93% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 64% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 3% | 13% |
| — further education college | 60% | 23% | 37% |
| — other education | 30% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 10% | 2% | 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 | Bowden House School | Tower Hamlets | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 11.1 | 47.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 48% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 10% | 67% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 54% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.30 | 4.27 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 70% | 55% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 45.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 49.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 47% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 9 | 90% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 33% |
| English Language | 8 | 80% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| Citizenship Studies | 8 | 80% | 3% | 0% | 19% | 25% |
| Art and Design | 7 | 70% | 7% | 0% | 24% | 100% |
Other secondary schools in Tower Hamlets
Bow School
Community school · sixth form · 1,126 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Canary Wharf Secondary
Free schools · 417 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 52.9
Central Foundation Girls' School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,526 pupils
95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.3
George Green's School
Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 1,256 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.0
Langdon Park Community School
Community school · sixth form · 1,055 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.5
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.