Ark All Saints Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 568 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.2
Academy special converter
Lift Newlands
- Pupils on roll
- 79of 70 places
- Free school meals
- 64.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 15
- Ofsted
- Good, 13 March 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Newlands School (URN 100874, until 1 September 2013).
What the data says
Of the 11 pupils who finished Year 11 at Lift Newlands in 2023, 9% moved to a sixth form college, 36% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
18% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 18.3 against 46.1 across England and 52.1 in Southwark, with 0% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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.
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 Southwark and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Lift Newlands | Southwark | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 11 | 3,117 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 64% | 94% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 64% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 9% | 58% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 9% | 10% | 13% |
| — further education college | 36% | 21% | 37% |
| — other education | 9% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 18% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 18% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Lift Newlands | Southwark | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 18.3 | 52.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 55% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 13% | 73% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 67% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.72 | 4.82 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 67% | 45% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | — | 44.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | — | 58.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 33% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | 11 | 73% | 23% | 0% | 45% | 27% |
| English Language | 11 | 73% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| Physics | 10 | 67% | 23% | 0% | 46% | 10% |
| Mathematics | 10 | 67% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 40% |
| English Literature | 8 | 53% | 86% | 0% | 21% | 50% |
| Physical Education | 7 | 47% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 0% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 6 | 40% | 8% | 0% | 21% | 67% |
| Media Studies | 6 | 40% | 4% | 17% | 20% | 50% |
| Fine Art | 3 | 20% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
| Religious Studies | 2 | 13% | 31% | — | 32% | — |
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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.