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Bishop Stopford's School

Enfield, EN1 3PU · Enfield · secondary school

Ofsted: Good · 2024 Inspected 2 years ago Mixed Secondary Church of England
2.8/10 Below average

18th of 21 secondary schools in Enfield we can score. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 3.0/10 against 373 of them, against 1.5/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Ofsted 52 35% 1.81
Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 30.3 · 18 30% 0.53
Progress 8 2023/24 -0.54 · 14 25% 0.35
Attainment 8 2024/25 36.5 · 9 10% 0.09

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 30.3% of pupils achieved Grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 36.5, below the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 was -0.54 in 2023/24, indicating pupils did worse than those nationally who started from the same place. Ofsted rated the school Good in March 2024. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (3.0 out of 10 against similar schools, 1.5 out of 10 against all schools).

Getting in. The school has 554 pupils in a capacity of 1165 places, leaving 611 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.

Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils to close the gap between their current attainment and the national median? What specific support is available for students who are falling behind in English and maths? How does the school maintain engagement for pupils in smaller class sizes?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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