Mossbourne Community Academy, London

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades Mossbourne Community Academy on 7 areas: 3 exceptional, 2 strong standard and 2 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Exceptional. "Pupils' achievement across all year groups, in all subjects and over time, is transformational."

Curriculum and teaching - Exceptional. "The school's curriculum is exemplary."

Post 16 provision - Exceptional. "The post-16 provision at Mossbourne Community Academy is of the highest quality."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders provide expert oversight of attendance."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders have extremely high expectations for pupils who face barriers to their learning."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Some aspects of leaders' work are highly effective."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Much of the school's personal development offer is of a high quality."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "School leaders should ensure that pupils who have been subject to consequences, including lesson removals and suspensions, receive uniform levels of pastoral care and that they are consistently reintegrated back into lessons without any unnecessary delays"; "School and trust leaders should ensure that pupils are further supported to maintain a positive sense of wellbeing, have increased opportunities to share their views, and are supported to develop a stronger sense of belonging within the school community"; "The school should strengthen trusting relationships with parents, carers and the wider community, ensuring that all concerns and complaints raised are listened to carefully and addressed in a more timely and constructive manner"; "Trustees and governors should increase the support and challenge they provide school leaders on matters relating to behaviour management, so that their oversight of this area of the school's work is as thorough as the support that they provide in other areas. They should ensure that their analysis of the frequency and duration of lesson removals, suspensions and other consequences is more detailed. Alongside this, they should pay closer attention to pupils' day-to-day experiences of school life, including how behaviour systems and consequences are experienced in practice, and the support available for pupils' wellbeing, and use this understanding to support and challenge the school to continually refine its approaches to behaviour management and accompanying pastoral support".

In 2026, pupils at Mossbourne Community Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 67.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 52.3 in Hackney and 47 across England.

81% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 57% in Hackney and 47% in England.

That is up from 65.1 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.47: 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 62.6, against 71.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 22 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were History, Religious Studies and Combined Science.

For September 2026 entry, 358 families put Mossbourne Community Academy as their first choice and 1089 named it as one of their preferences, for 204 places offered. That is 1.8 first choices for every place. 183 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Mossbourne Community Academy are The Excelsior Academy (0.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46.6); Clapton Girls' Academy (0.5 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 60.7); The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary School (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.7); and The City Academy, Hackney (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 53.2).

Mossbourne Community Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Mossbourne Community Academy is one of 7 schools run by The Mossbourne Federation, an academy trust.

Of the 206 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 96% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 19% to a further education college and 1% into work.

Of the 188 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 70% went on to university or other higher education and 10% into work. 60% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

44.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 46.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Black (30%), White British (16%) and Asian (15%).

Mossbourne Community Academy has a resourced provision for autism.

Mossbourne Community Academy had 114 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest railway station is Hackney Downs Station, about 300 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Sandringham Road /Amhurst Road, 220 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Mossbourne Community Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Mossbourne Community Academy issued 401 suspensions, 27.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Mossbourne Community Academy are Mossbourne Parkside Academy (0.2 miles); Nightingale Primary School (0.3 miles); The Olive School, Hackney (0.4 miles); and Halley House School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.