Ark King Solomon Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,319 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.3
The St Marylebone Church of England Bridge School has no sixth form. Of the 13 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 38% moved to a sixth form college, 46% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 3.7 against 46.1 across England and 53.2 in Westminster, with 7% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 38% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.
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 Westminster and England.
| Measure | This school | Westminster | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 13 | 1,772 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 64% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 38% | 7% | 13% |
| — further education college | 46% | 19% | 37% |
| — other education | 8% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Measure | This school | Westminster | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 3.7 | 53.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 7% | 58% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 7% | 74% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 68% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.29 | 4.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 57% | 43% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 2.3 | 45.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 5.7 | 58.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 21% | 51% | 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.
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 | 4 | 29% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
| English Language | 3 | 21% | 89% | — | 20% | — |
| Computer Science | 1 | 7% | 13% | — | 30% | — |
| Combined Science | 1 | 7% | 65% | — | 9% | — |
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,319 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.3
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,326 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 51.0
Free schools · sixth form · 561 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.6
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,256 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 61.6
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,079 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.2
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 953 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.3
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.