The School Record

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

Ashcroft Technology Academy

URN 135316 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Wandsworth

100 West Hill, London, SW15 2UT

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, 347 families named Ashcroft Technology Academy as their first preference, and the school made 237 offers.

That is 1.46 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 92% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 92% 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 1.33 in 2021–2022 and 1.46 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 347 1115 237 1.46
2024 349 1178 240 1.45
2023 352 1169 240 1.47
2022 330 1164 245 1.35
2021 317 1206 242 1.31
2020 390 1327 230 1.70
2019 318 1256 236 1.35
2018 302 1299 207 1.46
2017 318 1140 196 1.62
2016 302 1222 205 1.47
2015 334 1230 200 1.67
2014 282 1194 201 1.40

“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.

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 2021 to 202520212025

Ofsted report card (current framework), 2 December 2025

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Exceptional

Achievement: Exceptional

Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Sixth form / post-16: Exceptional

Leadership and governance: Exceptional

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 21 September 2021

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Outstanding

Ofsted's report for this school

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 66.70 - 89.9% 81.1%
2023/24 65.60 1.34
likely between 1.15 and 1.53
89.4% 74.9%
2022/23 63.30 1.09
likely between 0.90 and 1.29
90.9% 74.6%

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 91.5 79.9 7.0 4.6 12.7%
2023/24 93.0 77.4 6.0 9.6 16.8%
2022/23 94.3 71.2 9.7 13.4 24.5%
2021/22 95.1 77.5 6.7 11.0 18.6%
2020/21 91.8 78.8 8.9 4.1 14.2%
2019/20 87.7 69.9 6.2 11.6 20.3%

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 Ashcroft Technology Academy.

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.