Canary Wharf College Crossharbour
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–19 · London, Tower Hamlets
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From London Borough of Tower Hamlets · offers on 2 March 2026
Year 7 last distance offered, 2025–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Canary Wharf College Crossharbour is a secondary school in London, Tower Hamlets for ages 11–19 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 9 May 2024. Tower Hamlets has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Canary Wharf College Crossharbour 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 52.9 (England 46).
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Requires improvement (9 May 2024); of the 8 nearest secondary schools in Tower Hamlets, 2 are Good, 1 is Outstanding and 5 have no current grade.
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 59 first-choice applications for 74 offers and 15 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 28.5% of pupils, below the middle figure of 47.6% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Tower Hamlets.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Tower Hamlets schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- 7 Selsdon Way, London, E14 9GL
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Religious character
- Christian
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 9 May 2024
Strengths
- “The school places a strong emphasis on its ethos, encouraging pupils to focus on six ‘character strengths’.”
- “Pupils are typically polite to adults and each other.”
- “Behaviour around the school is generally orderly.”
To improve
- “While this is having a positive impact, there are some inconsistencies in how the agreed systems are applied.”
- “While many pupils achieve well, the support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those at the early stages of learning to read is not sufficiently robust.”
- “As a result, these pupils are not well supported to achieve highly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 June 2024 (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) | 57% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 52.9 | 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: 59 first-preference applications, 74 offers in total, 59 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 Tower Hamlets.
- George Green's School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Langdon Park Community School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bow School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bishop Challoner Catholic School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Central Foundation Girls' School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mulberry School for Girls 2.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published