Fulham Cross Academy

Fulham Cross Academy continues to demonstrate good performance as a secondary school, providing a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and valued. The school's community fosters respect and inclusion, with leaders effectively managing bullying incidents. Pupils benefit from an ambitious and well-structured curriculum that emphasizes science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, facilitating engagement and learning. The adaptations made to the curriculum have further strengthened pupils' understanding and preparation for future studies. This is the first routine inspection since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing leaders to showcase the school’s adaptability and resilience during challenging times.

Strengths

• Pupils are encouraged to be emotionally aware and respectful towards others.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious, and well-structured, matching national expectations.
• Leaders support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities effectively.
• Strong careers provision prepares pupils well for future educational and career choices.
• Leaders and governors maintain good communication with stakeholders and care about staff well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• Some teaching does not check carefully what pupils have learned.
• Occasional derogatory language between pupils is not tackled with consistent rigor.

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 Fulham Cross Academy attended 90.5% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 30.4% 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, 12.9% of pupils at Fulham Cross Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 8 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 Fulham Cross Academy had 14.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 30.1% 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, 16.2% of pupils at Fulham Cross Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 3.1% 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 2024–25 Fulham Cross Academy received £10,065 and spent £9,278 for each of its 663 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,483,000 (£2,237 per pupil).

Across all 27 schools of Bourne Education Trust, income was £8,217 and spending £7,648 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Fulham Cross Academy is part of Bourne Education Trust, which runs 30 schools. The nearest others:

• Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College London
• Teddington School Teddington
• Twickenham School Twickenham
• The Mead Infant and Nursery School Epsom
• Auriol Junior School Epsom
• Hampton High Hampton
• Meadow Primary School Epsom
• Nonsuch Primary School Epsom
• West Ewell Primary School and Nursery Epsom
• Epsom and Ewell High School Epsom

What is Fulham Cross Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Fulham Cross Academy is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was Fulham Cross Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Fulham Cross Academy was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Fulham Cross Academy have?

Fulham Cross Academy has 588 pupils on roll.

What age range does Fulham Cross Academy cover?

Fulham Cross Academy for pupils aged 11 to 19.

What are Fulham Cross Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 43.9, and 47% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Fulham Cross Academy?

Fulham Cross Academy is at Kingwood Road, Fulham Palace Road, London, SW6 6SN.