Secondary
Sydenham School
Dartmouth Road, London, SE26 4RD
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Girls
- Pupils
- 1467 of 1580 places
- Local authority
- Lewisham
- Sixth form
- Yes
Ofsted
Last inspected June 2022
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
49%
50.8
130th of 239 by our score, among the secondary schools in London we can score - 299 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 50.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.64 |
| Entered the EBacc | 68% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 73% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 49% |
| A level average points per entry | 39.29 |
| A level students | 116 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 58% |
| 22/23 | 53% |
| 23/24 | 48% |
| 24/25 | 49% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 39.2 |
| 22/23 | 37.6 |
| 23/24 | 36.9 |
| 24/25 | 39.3 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.20 |
| 22/23 | -0.02 |
| 23/24 | +0.10 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 54.6 |
| 22/23 | 51.6 |
| 23/24 | 49.7 |
| 24/25 | 50.8 |
Dartmouth Road, London, SE26 4RD
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Lewisham admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Emma Wijnberg
- Address
- Dartmouth Road, London, SE26 4RD
- Telephone
- 02086996731