Kelmscott School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
Not published
From Waltham Forest Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kelmscott School 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 15 January 2025. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Kelmscott School 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 | Not published |
| 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
- Year 7 in 2026 had 234 first-choice applications for 222 offers; 190 offers went to first-choice families, and 44 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Its latest Ofsted outcome, on 15 January 2025, was standards maintained; the previous graded outcome was Good, on 24 May 2016.
- In 2024/25, 38% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 43.7 (England 46).
- The 2024/25 GCSE English and maths result ranked 2nd lowest 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
- 245 Markhouse Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 8DN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 1,137 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 15 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at Kelmscott are happy and kept safe and develop as confident and resilient learners.”
- “They are well supported to meet the school’s high expectations.”
- “They talk with enthusiasm about the school values of self-control, tolerance, optimism, resilience and motivation.”
To improve
- “There are, however, times when this is less effective.”
- “In these instances, assessment is not used as well to identify and address pupils’ misconceptions.”
- “As a result, there are gaps in some pupils’ knowledge that prevents them from developing the deep body of knowledge they need to understand and move through the intended curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 February 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) | 38% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 43.7 | 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: 234 first-preference applications, 222 offers in total, 190 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.
- Lammas School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willowfield School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Walthamstow School for Girls 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Norlington School and 6th Form 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest 1.4 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Leytonstone School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Connaught School for Girls 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published