The London Oratory School
Hammersmith and Fulham, SW6 1RX · Hammersmith and Fulham local authority
Hammersmith and Fulham’s School Grade A+ better than 98% of towns in England
What stands out about The London Oratory School
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 99% of England’s primary schools
- Its own letter, A: GCSE results better than 90% of England’s secondary schools
- 93% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 31 points above England’s schools
- 67% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 20 points above England’s schools
- Over capacity: 1,392 pupils for 1,231 places
- 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted: Outstanding, September 2022 (shown, not graded)
- 48% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (109 of 226)
- Progress 8 of +0.62 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (SW6 1) sold for a median £675,000; Hammersmith and Fulham’s is £760,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 189 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The London Oratory beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 59.9
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 92% of schools · Hammersmith and Fulham avg 56.3
Grade 5+ in English and maths 67%
A strong pass · higher than 88% of schools · Hammersmith and Fulham avg 65%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.62: above average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 33 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
Reading, writing and maths 93%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 99% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Hammersmith and Fulham avg 76%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 111, maths 111 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at The London Oratory School?
48% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (217), 2020 (214), 2021 (185), 2022 (133), 2023 (159), 2024 (118), 2025 (128), 2026 (117). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The London Oratory School sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hammersmith and Fulham council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
48% got their first choice
Hammersmith and Fulham and Hammersmith and Fulham, side by side
2025/26All 11 graded secondaries in Hammersmith and Fulham. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Hammersmith and Fulham’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Margaret School | A+ | 17% | 64.7 |
| West London Free School | A | 27% | 64.2 |
| The Fulham Boys School | A+ | 27% | 63.8 |
| The London Oratory School | A | 11% | 59.9 |
| The Hurlingham Academy | A | 42% | 58.4 |
| Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College | A | 53% | 58.1 |
| Sacred Heart High School | A | 18% | 56.2 |
| Hammersmith Academy | A | 35% | 54.9 |
| Phoenix Academy | A− | 49% | 51.5 |
| Fulham Cross Academy | B− | 41% | 43.9 |
| Ark Burlington Danes Academy | C+ | 60% | 43.6 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 20251,398 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
The London Oratory School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Outstanding, September 2022.
Living near The London Oratory School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SW6 1, the school’s postcode sector
Hammersmith and Fulham property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SW6 1 sell for a little under Hammersmith and Fulham’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
46 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Hammersmith and Fulham, SW6 1RX
The London Oratory School: common questions
Is The London Oratory School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its GCSE results are better than 90% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is A), with an Attainment 8 of 59.9 and 67% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, September 2022.
How hard is it to get into The London Oratory School?
For September 2026, 226 families put The London Oratory School first and 109 of them were offered a place; 157 places were offered in all.
What is The London Oratory School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (September 2022).
How much do houses cost near The London Oratory School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SW6 1, sold for a median £675,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (222 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Hammersmith and Fulham’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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