Buxton School
Foundation school · 1,065 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.2
Community school
Walthamstow School for Girls
- Pupils on roll
- 895of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 25.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 179
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 4 December 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Walthamstow School for Girls has no sixth form. Of the 178 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 46% moved to a sixth form college, 11% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 46% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 60.0 against 46.1 across England and 45.3 in Waltham Forest, with 73% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Music is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.
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 Waltham Forest and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Walthamstow School for Girls | Waltham Forest | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 178 | 2,805 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 97% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 96% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 38% | 35% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 46% | 28% | 13% |
| — further education college | 11% | 26% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Walthamstow School for Girls | Waltham Forest | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 60.0 | 45.3 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 73% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 84% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 48% | 43% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.43 | 4.04 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 26% | 33% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 51.9 | 38.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 62.8 | 48.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 16% | 39% | 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 | 180 | 100% | 88% | 34% | 22% | 87% |
| English Language | 179 | 100% | 89% | 45% | 20% | 91% |
| English Literature | 177 | 99% | 86% | 51% | 21% | 92% |
| Combined Science | 132 | 74% | 65% | 25% | 9% | 74% |
| History | 78 | 44% | 41% | 56% | 26% | 83% |
| Spanish | 70 | 39% | 19% | 56% | 27% | 87% |
| Fine Art | 69 | 39% | 9% | 43% | 28% | 87% |
| Business Studies | 68 | 38% | 18% | 24% | 20% | 68% |
| Geography | 68 | 38% | 41% | 37% | 25% | 90% |
| Religious Studies | 62 | 35% | 31% | 56% | 32% | 87% |
| Chemistry | 46 | 26% | 23% | 70% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 46 | 26% | 23% | 63% | 45% | 100% |
| Physics | 46 | 26% | 23% | 50% | 46% | 100% |
| Drama | 43 | 24% | 7% | 28% | 27% | 95% |
| French | 40 | 22% | 18% | 48% | 29% | 100% |
| Music | 38 | 21% | 5% | 34% | 33% | 71% |
| Textiles | 23 | 13% | 2% | 30% | 27% | 87% |
| Design and Technology | 16 | 9% | 11% | 19% | 23% | 63% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 16 | 9% | 8% | 13% | 21% | 81% |
| Latin | 15 | 8% | 1% | 60% | 74% | 93% |
| Computer Science | 15 | 8% | 13% | 27% | 30% | 67% |
| Physical Education | 10 | 6% | 11% | 60% | 24% | 90% |
| Polish | 6 | 3% | 1% | 83% | 84% | 100% |
| Portuguese | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Turkish | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
| Japanese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
Where Walthamstow School for Girls is
Other secondary schools in Waltham Forest are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Waltham Forest’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Waltham Forest
Chingford Foundation School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,363 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.1
Connaught School for Girls
Academy converter · 550 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.6
Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest
Free schools · 617 pupils
98% stayed in education · Attainment 8 63.5
Frederick Bremer School
Community school · 888 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.7
George Mitchell School
Academy converter · 973 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.0
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.