George Mitchell School
All-through · Academy converter · Ages 3–16 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Waltham Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2025: 0.719 mi
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
George Mitchell School is an all-through school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 3–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 June 2023. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
George Mitchell 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 0.719 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 5 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place; the published admission number for Reception 2026 was 60 places.
- Reception 2026 drew 34 first-choice applications for 38 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Year 7 in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.719 miles from the school.
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
- Farmer Road, Leyton, London, E10 5DN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 3–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 973 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 June 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils and want them to do well.”
- “This ambition can be seen in the secondary phase, for example, through the rise in the proportion of pupils who are studying the subjects that make up the English Baccalaureate.”
- “George Mitchell School is calm and orderly, for example corridors are safe spaces, where pupils move quietly from one lesson to another.”
To improve
- “Leaders have rightly identified that secondaryage pupils would benefit from a wider range of clubs and activities.”
- “However, pupils’ progress in mathematics by the end of Year 6 was below average.”
- “While there is still work to do, teachers now explain and model concepts more effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 61% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 38 offers in total, 34 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 62 first-preference applications, 70 offers in total, 58 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Waltham Forest.
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- Belmont Park School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Buxton School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Forest School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Whitefield School 1.9 mi Good
- Big Creative Independent School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Lime Academy Hornbeam 2.4 mi School remains Good