Ark Walworth Academy

Type Secondary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 11-18
Religion Does not apply
Address Shorncliffe Road
London
SE1 5UJ
Phone 02074509570
Reference Number 135315

Description

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Ark Walworth Academy is a dynamic, co-educational secondary school and sixth form institution located in the Walworth area of Southwark, London. Established in 2007, the school caters to students between the ages of 11 and 18. It is an Academy Sponsor-led school, governed by ARK Schools, and its principal is Ms. Jessica West. The school operates within a mixed-gender environment, serving a diverse student population with a current enrollment of 1023 students.

The school is part of the Ark Schools network, the transformation arm of ARK, an international charity that seeks to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged communities. Ark Walworth Academy previously had origins in Mina Road School, a Victorian-era institution, and later evolved into Walworth School; a significant part of the school's history coming from its interim and experimental comprehensive nature.

The campus at Ark Walworth Academy has been split into three sections named after local figures: Chaplin, Babbage, and Seacole. The Chaplin and Babbage blocks serve Key Stage 3 students while Key Stage 4 is known as Seacole. The school achieved an Ofsted rating of "Good, with outstanding capacity to improve" in a July 2010 report.

General Makeup

Number of pupils 989
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 56.42%
Girls: 43.58%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 63.3%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 58.8%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 18.7

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 91 82 173
8 84 70 154
9 85 58 143
10 99 72 171
11 89 68 157
12 55 39 94
13 55 42 97

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
African 33.2%
Unclassified 9.7%
White, British 8.8%
Caribbean 6.8%
White, Other 6.6%
Mixed, Other 6.4%
White & Black (African) 3%
White & Black (Caribbean) 2.4%
Chinese 1.3%
Asian, Other 1%
Pakistani 0.6%
White & Asian 0.5%
Irish 0.2%
Indian 0.1%

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
Last Inspection Date 2023-12-11
Date Description Report
2023-11-02 School inspection School inspection
2018-01-31 Short inspection Short inspection
2014-10-22 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2012-10-18 Curriculum and development visit Curriculum and development visit
2010-06-22 Full inspection: Full inspection:
2009-05-13 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
41.5 Unlock Unlock

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 41.3% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 53.5% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

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GCSE Results

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Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

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Points

Points Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Average Points 34.78 Unlock Unlock
Average Points (best 3) 34.81 Unlock Unlock

Grades

School Local Nationwide
Average Grade C+ B- C+
Average Grade (best 3) C+ B- C+
Percentage Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Students getting AAB or better 14% Unlock Unlock

2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 92 17
Third Preference 90 5
From another Local Authority 35 10

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

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