The School Record

London Nautical, City of London Academy

Secondary school · Lambeth

61 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NA

This school became an academy on 1 January 2025. Before that it was a foundation school, under London Nautical School (URN 100642).

About the school

Type of school
Academy
Academy trust
City of London Academies Trust
Became an academy
1 January 2025. Before that it was a foundation school, under London Nautical School (URN 100642).
Ages
11 to 18
Boys or girls
Boys only
Sixth form
Yes
Website
https://londonnautical.cola.org.uk
Telephone
020 7928 6801
School number (URN)
150889

Other schools run by City of London Academies Trust

City of London Academies Trust runs 10 other schools with a page here.

From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.

How big the school is

In 2024 this school had 815 places and 549 children on roll.

266 places were unfilled, which is 33% of the school.

In 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 the school had 607 children on roll on average, against 549 in 2024. Some of those years are from its record under an earlier school number.

Its places have fallen from 872 in 2009 to 815 in 2024.

Places are the whole school added up, every year group together. That is not the number of places a school offers to new children in one year.

Source: Department for Education school capacity collection.

Children in each year group

As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places.

Children in each year group at London Nautical, City of London Academy

Y7 64, Y8 73, Y9 50, Y10 73, Y11 69, Y12 105, Y13 7664Y773Y850Y973Y1069Y11105Y1276Y13
Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026.
Year groupChildren
Year 7 64
Year 8 73
Year 9 50
Year 10 73
Year 11 69
Year 12 105
Year 13 76

This is not a list of spare places. Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year, so a year group that looked two under in January can be full by March.

If you are moving into the area and need a place during the school year, ask Lambeth. Councils handle applications made during the school year, including for schools that set their own admission rules. They hold the up-to-date position, which this page does not.

Who decides who gets a place

This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Lambeth setting them.

Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.

Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.

How to apply

Applications for a place starting in September 2027 closed on 31 October 2026, unless your council set a later date.

That is a Saturday, and some councils accept applications until the next working day. Your council's website gives its own closing date.

Councils send every offer for secondary school places on the same day, 1 March 2027 or the next working day.

An application made after the closing date is what the rules call a late application. It is still a normal application and the council still handles it, but it is dealt with after the ones that arrived on time, so it does not get an answer on the day above.

You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's secondary school application on GOV.UK.

To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: https://londonnautical.cola.org.uk. Telephone: 020 7928 6801.

Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.

How many families applied

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

In the 2026 intake, 24 families named London Nautical, City of London Academy as their first preference, and the school made 35 offers.

That is 0.69 first preferences per place offered, higher than 15% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 15% of comparable schools
Position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2026 intake.

First preferences for this school changed little, from 44 a year in 2021–2022 to 42 in 2024–2026. Across all 16 schools in Lambeth admitting at Year 7, first preferences fell 12% over the same years, from 2,012 to 1,768.

Counts of families, not places.

Across Lambeth as a whole, 61.4% of families applying for a secondary place for September 2026 were offered their first choice, and 84.8% were offered one of the three schools they named. That is a figure for the council, not for this school. How the 2026 round went in Lambeth.

Compared with its own past

Fewer families than its recent average put this school first.

In 2026, 24 families put this school first. In 2020 to 2024 the average was 47 a year.

In 2026, 102 families named this school somewhere on their list. In 2020 to 2024 the average was 154 a year.

In 2026, every family who put this school first was offered a place here (24 of 24). In 2020 to 2024 it was every family, every year.

In 2026, 17 of the 35 offers went to children living outside Lambeth. In 2020 to 2024 the average was 47 a year.

Some of the earlier years are for London Nautical School, the school this one replaced.

Each figure is compared only with the same figure at this school. "About the same" means within 10 in every 100 of the average.

First preferences and offers at Year 7

Families naming London Nautical, City of London Academy first, against the offers it made, for every intake year held.

First preferences from 74 in 2014 to 24 in 2026; Offers made from 114 in 2014 to 35 in 2026040801202014201620182020202220242026Offers made35First preferences24
Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Preferences count families. Offers count places given out on offer day. The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Figures before 2026 are from London Nautical School, the school this one replaced, before it became an academy. The government's school register links the two, and they are the same school.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences1st choice All preferencesAny choice Offers madeOffers 1st prefs per placePer place
2026 24 102 35 0.69
2024
as London Nautical School		 59 158 70 0.84
2023
as London Nautical School		 33 125 58 0.57
2022
as London Nautical School		 46 155 66 0.70
2021
as London Nautical School		 41 126 58 0.71
2020
as London Nautical School		 57 204 94 0.61
2019
as London Nautical School		 51 230 98 0.52
2018
as London Nautical School		 68 297 114 0.60
2017
as London Nautical School		 81 311 117 0.69
2016
as London Nautical School		 98 363 111 0.88
2015
as London Nautical School		 64 272 105 0.61
2014
as London Nautical School		 74 326 114 0.65

“Offers made” is the number of offers on offer day, not the number of places the school has.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

Where families put this school on their list

In 2026 this school made 35 offers: 24 to families who had named it first, 7 to families who named it second and 1 to a family who named it third.

3 offers went to families who named it fourth or lower, or who were admitted another way.

A school is not allowed to treat a family differently because of where it sat on their list. The School Admissions Code says an admission authority must not give extra priority to children whose parents rank preferred schools in a particular order.

The order is used at the end, by the council, and not by the school. Where more than one school could take a child, the council offers the one the family put highest.

Leaving the other boxes empty does not change how this school considers an application. If none of the schools a family names can offer a place, the council has to offer one at a school that has room, and that school may be further away.

Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraphs 1.9 and 2.11.

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 graded inspection (previous framework), 22 June 2023

This inspection relates to a predecessor of the current school.

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Sixth form / post-16
Requires improvement

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

If you are refused a place

In 2026, families in Lambeth lodged 84 appeals about a secondary school place.

61 of them were heard by a panel and 6 succeeded, which is about 10 in every 100 heard.

The other 23 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

These count appeals about every school in Lambeth, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.

Waiting lists

Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.

A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.

Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.

From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.

Children with special educational needs

In January 2026, 48 of the 510 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 9 in every 100. Across schools in England the middle figure is 4 in every 100.

A further 44 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 9 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.

A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application.

This school runs a resourced provision: teaching for children with special educational needs, on the same site as the rest of the school.

The published figures do not say which kinds of need it is set up for, or how many children it takes. Ask the school or Lambeth.

Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census.

Who goes to this school

In January 2026, 184 of the 510 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 36 in every 100.

More children are eligible here than at half of secondary schools in England, where the middle figure is 27 in every 100.

English was not the first language for 46 in every 100 children here. Across secondary schools the middle figure is 12 in every 100.

This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.

This matters when reading results. Across the 3,610 schools we hold 2024 key stage 4 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 81% getting grade 4 or above in English and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 35%.

Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published.

Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll.

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 - - - -

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.

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, and schools nearby

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from London Nautical, City of London Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

Using this information

This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.

Figures current as of 14 September 2026.

This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.