Langdon Park Community School, London

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades Langdon Park Community School 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."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a curriculum that is broad and ambitious."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders identify any barriers that pupils have swiftly."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have a deep understanding about the school's strengths and areas of priority."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a personal development programme that prepares pupils for adulthood and ensures they receive a broad range of wider opportunities beyond the academic curriculum."

Post 16 provision - Expected standard. "The leadership team has a very firm understanding of the strengths and priorities for development in the sixth form."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff consistently check pupils' understanding and address any misconceptions to ensure gaps in pupils' learning do not develop or persist"; "Leaders should continue to embed and refine the strategies in place to support pupils who have not yet secured firm foundations in literacy and numeracy, ensuring that these pupils catch up as quickly as possible"; "The school should develop leadership at all levels to ensure that whole-school development priorities and staff training are consistently applied and embedded across the school".

In its own words: "Our vision is that Langdon Park School will be widely respected as a community school that offers students a life changing education. Our purpose is to inspire, ignite and unlock the creativity and imagination of every child and adult in our community. Pedagogy and professionalism are the driving forces in our School."

In 2026, pupils at Langdon Park Community School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 46.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.4 in Tower Hamlets and 47 across England.

51% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 49% in Tower Hamlets and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.34: pupils made below 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 43.9, against 51.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 7.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 106 families put Langdon Park Community School as their first choice and 294 named it as one of their preferences, for 167 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 Langdon Park Community School are Bow School (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.8); St Paul's Way Trust School (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 52); Harris Science Academy East London (0.9 miles, Attainment 8 59.3); and Central Foundation Girls' School (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 53).

Langdon Park Community School's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Of the 167 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 26% to a further education college.

Of the 97 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 66% went on to university or other higher education, 5% to apprenticeships and 8% into work. 12% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

58.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 49.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (73%), Black (10%) and White British (6%).

In 2026, 162 pupils (15.4%) received SEN support and 68 (6.4%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Langdon Park, about 120 metres away (roughly a 2-minute walk).

22 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Michael's Court (->s), 90 metres away.

In 2024/25, Langdon Park Community School issued 102 suspensions, 9.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Langdon Park Community School are Manorfield Primary School (0.2 miles), St Saviour's Church of England Primary School (0.2 miles), Lansbury Lawrence Primary School (0.2 miles) and Culloden Primary - A Paradigm Academy (0.3 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.