Walthamstow Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
0.641 miles
Published by Waltham Forest Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Walthamstow Academy is a secondary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2025 entry.
Walthamstow Academy 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 | 0.641 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 in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.641 miles away, the shortest of 5 Waltham Forest secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The Year 7 last distance in 2025 was nearer the school than in 2024 and 2020, and the 2025 figure was the shortest of the 6 years.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 221 first-choice applications for 171 offers; 149 offers went to first-choice families and 72 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 54% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%); the A level average grade was B- (England B-).
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
- Billet Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 5DP
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 1,092 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Walthamstow Academy and are kept safe here.”
- “They know that they can talk to adults about any concerns.”
- “Pupils are confident that staff listen and take appropriate action.”
To improve
- “There are, however, a few subjects where the work pupils complete is less ambitious than the curriculum suggests.”
- “However, in some subjects, the activities given to pupils do not match the ambition of the planned curriculum.”
- “As a result, pupils do not fully secure the knowledge and understanding that they need in these subjects to tackle more challenging ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 February 2023 (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) | 54% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
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: 221 first-preference applications, 171 offers in total, 149 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.
- South Chingford Foundation School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Frederick Bremer School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Walthamstow School for Girls 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Willowfield School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Highams Park School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Kelmscott School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published