London Enterprise Academy

London Enterprise Academy is a secondary academy within a single academy trust. Following this October 2024 graded inspection, the school was judged good in all four key judgements: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This represents improvement from its previous requires improvement grade. Inspectors found a school where leaders are ambitious for pupils, including those with SEND, and where current pupils are learning well and rapidly improving their understanding across subjects. Safeguarding is effective, pupils behave well and feel safe, and the trust supports the school effectively. The curriculum is rich and based on the national curriculum, and the school has worked to ensure that what is taught matches what is intended. Reading is promoted successfully, pupils who had fallen behind are catching up, and support for pupils with SEND is effective. Pupils value the school's enrichment opportunities, including trips and careers guidance, and staff report that leaders consider their wellbeing and workload. However, some weaknesses remain. Published outcomes have been low, reflecting that leaders' ambition is not yet fully realised in some curriculum aspects. Day-to-day assessment checks in classrooms are not precise enough, so pupils' misconceptions and gaps are not always corrected promptly. The PSHE curriculum is not designed or sequenced coherently, oversight of what pupils are taught is not clear enough, and some pupils are therefore not as well prepared for life in modern Britain as they could be.

Strengths

• The school has designed a rich, ambitious curriculum based on the national curriculum.
• Staff training helps ensure that the curriculum taught in lessons matches the intended knowledge.
• Current pupils are learning and achieving well across subjects and are rapidly improving.
• Support for pupils with SEND is effective, with appropriate adaptations and growing independence.
• Pupils understand and follow the school's behaviour expectations, supporting learning.
• Pupils are kept safe and know who to talk to if they have concerns.
• The school promotes reading successfully, building confidence, enjoyment and catch-up for pupils who have fallen behind.
• Personal development is threaded through the curriculum, with rich enrichment opportunities and financial assistance for trips.
• Pupils receive timely careers advice and guidance and feel supported with their next steps.
• The trust knows the school well, supports its ambitions and takes staff wellbeing and workload into account.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching does not routinely use assessment to check whether pupils have learned and remembered essential curriculum knowledge.
• Day-to-day classroom checks are less precise, so pupils' errors and misconceptions are not always challenged or corrected promptly.
• The PSHE curriculum is not designed in a systematic, coherent way.
• The school does not have clear oversight of what pupils are learning through PSHE and when.
• Some pupils do not learn the PSHE content the school has set out, leaving them less prepared for life in modern Britain.
• Published outcomes have been low, reflecting that ambition is not yet fully realised in some curriculum aspects.

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 London Enterprise Academy attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 16.4% 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, 6.3% of pupils at London Enterprise Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was 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 London Enterprise Academy had 11.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 28.5% 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, 13.6% of pupils at London Enterprise Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.5% 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 London Enterprise Academy received £14,039 and spent £13,306 for each of its 415 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £2,445,000 (£5,892 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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What is London Enterprise Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for London Enterprise Academy is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was London Enterprise Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

London Enterprise Academy was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does London Enterprise Academy have?

London Enterprise Academy has 396 pupils on roll.

What age range does London Enterprise Academy cover?

London Enterprise Academy for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are London Enterprise Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 48.7, and 49% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is London Enterprise Academy?

London Enterprise Academy is at 81-91 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 1RD.