Thomas Tallis School

Thomas Tallis School continues to demonstrate good performance, providing a supportive and enriching environment for its pupils. The school's leaders emphasize high expectations and have successfully implemented creative and ambitious curriculum offerings. Pupils are encouraged to explore their individuality while being equipped with valuable skills through diverse extracurricular activities. There is effective support for students with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring inclusivity in the learning process. Overall, parents express high levels of satisfaction with the school's nurturing approach and vision for student development.

Strengths

• Exceptional pastoral care that supports pupil happiness and safety.
• Broad, ambitious, and creative curriculum offerings.
• Strong subject knowledge and passionate teaching staff.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• High-quality guidance for future career choices.
• Strong pupil engagement in extracurricular activities and community service.

Areas for Improvement

• Curricular aims are not always securely embedded, affecting pupils' memory recall.
• Support for reading, particularly phonics, is not fully embedded, affecting some pupils' curriculum access.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Thomas Tallis School attended 90.0% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 27.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 3.5% of pupils at Thomas Tallis School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 3 pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Thomas Tallis School had 17.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 21.6% of pupils at Thomas Tallis School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 6.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Thomas Tallis School received £10,614 and spent £10,906 for each of its 2,103 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £830,000 (£395 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Thomas Tallis School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Thomas Tallis School is Good, from an inspection in April 2024.

When was Thomas Tallis School last inspected by Ofsted?

Thomas Tallis School was last inspected in April 2024.

How many pupils does Thomas Tallis School have?

Thomas Tallis School has 2,092 pupils on roll.

What age range does Thomas Tallis School cover?

Thomas Tallis School for pupils aged 11 to 19.

What are Thomas Tallis School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 47.4, and 49% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Thomas Tallis School?

Thomas Tallis School is at 134 Kidbrooke Park Road, London, SE3 9PX.