The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Harlington School

URN 102451 · Secondary · Foundation school · Hillingdon

Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, UB3 1PB

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 168 families named Harlington School as their first preference, and the school made 222 offers.

That is 0.76 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 21% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 21% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.69 in 2021–2022 and 0.75 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 168 485 222 0.76
2024 172 514 229 0.75
2023 151 465 234 0.65
2022 129 427 184 0.70
2021 126 438 186 0.68
2020 142 451 218 0.65
2019 156 477 189 0.83
2018 133 422 181 0.73
2017 117 373 191 0.61
2016 110 358 182 0.60
2015 74 289 98 0.76
2014 60 251 103 0.58

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202420232024

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 26 November 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 11 October 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 42.50 - 59.8% 28.2%
2023/24 43.30 0.27
likely between 0.06 and 0.48
61.4% 34.4%
2022/23 43.60 0.23
likely between 0.01 and 0.44
60.9% 28.6%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 84.4 71.4 2.0 11.0 15.4%
2023/24 71.2 54.4 6.0 10.8 23.6%
2022/23 82.8 68.2 8.8 5.8 17.6%
2021/22 81.0 67.8 2.8 10.4 16.3%
2020/21 78.2 67.6 3.0 7.6 13.6%
2019/20 82.7 73.7 6.0 3.0 10.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Harlington School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.