Ernest Bevin Academy, London

Ofsted's report card from its 3 March 2026 inspection grades Ernest Bevin Academy on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils typically achieve well and are well prepared for their next steps, including in the sixth form."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils typically attend well."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have effective processes for identifying pupils' needs accurately and at an early stage."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders are astute in their analysis of the school's performance, and their evaluation of the school is accurate."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education programme builds pupils' knowledge over time, appropriate to pupils' ages and stages."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "Students enjoy their studies in the sixth form and appreciate the mix of academic and vocational courses on offer."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to improve curriculum delivery across the school, including refining adaptations for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, so that the curriculum and teaching are consistently of high quality and all pupils achieve highly"; "Leaders should strengthen their communication with staff, parents and carers to ensure that the rationale for changes being made is commonly understood and supported by the whole school community".

In 2026, pupils at Ernest Bevin Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 52.8 in Wandsworth and 47 across England.

52% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 58% in Wandsworth and 47% in England.

That is up from 44.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.59: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 42.6, against 52.4 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and History.

For September 2026 entry, 47 families put Ernest Bevin Academy as their first choice and 174 named it as one of their preferences, for 130 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Ernest Bevin Academy are Burntwood School (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.2); Chestnut Grove Academy (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 57.1); Graveney School (1.2 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 61.6); and Ark Bolingbroke Academy (1.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 56.2).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Ernest Bevin Academy.

Ernest Bevin Academy is one of 98 schools run by United Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 49 in 2024/25.

40 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Ernest Bevin Academy (as of April 2026): 33% would recommend the school, 35% say their child is happy there and 17% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (43%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (17%).

Of the 164 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 21% to a further education college.

Of the 84 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 64% went on to university or other higher education, 5% to apprenticeships and 8% into work. 10% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

46.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 71.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (43%), Black (27%) and Mixed (9%).

The nearest tram or metro stop is Tooting Bec Station, about 610 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Beechcroft Road / Tooting, 310 metres away.

In 2024/25, Ernest Bevin Academy issued 80 suspensions, 12.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 3 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Ernest Bevin Academy are Fircroft Primary School (0.1 miles), St Anselm's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles), Gatton (VA) Primary School (0.5 miles) and Rutherford House School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.