Walthamstow School for Girls
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
0.830 miles
Published by Waltham Forest Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Walthamstow School for Girls is a secondary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 December 2024. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Walthamstow School for Girls catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | 0.830 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 entry in 2026 there were 231 first-choice applications for 173 offers; 162 offers went to first-choice families, and 69 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Year 7 entry had 1.3 first choices per offer, the 2nd highest of 15 Waltham Forest secondary schools.
- For Year 7 entry in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.830 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 5 Waltham Forest secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.86 miles).
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Waltham Forest.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Waltham Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Church Hill, Walthamstow, London, E17 9RZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 895 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils receive an exceptional education.”
- “The school motto of ‘neglect not the gift that is in thee’ promotes a highly aspirational culture.”
- “This helps to shape pupils’ character and develop them as lifelong learners.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 73% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 60 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 231 first-preference applications, 173 offers in total, 162 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Waltham Forest.
- Holy Family Catholic School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Frederick Bremer School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kelmscott School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Walthamstow Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leytonstone School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willowfield School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- South Chingford Foundation School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Norlington School and 6th Form 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published