Hammersmith and Fulham’s state schools get better results than 98% of towns in England
Reading, writing and maths at the expected standard: 76% of primary pupils in Hammersmith and Fulham, above both London’s towns (70%) and towns in England (62%). 58 state-funded schools are located in Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area. Hammersmith and Fulham grades A+ for schools, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results: #2 of 33 in London. Ofsted is shown, not graded.
Hammersmith and Fulham’s secondary results beat 95% of English towns; its primary results beat 97%. 76% of the London borough’s 11-year-olds meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% at the average school in England and 76% across Hammersmith and Fulham. The spread between primaries is wide: 91% at Addison Primary School, 55% at Melcombe Primary School. Every school’s result ↓
Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Education beats its intake
Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually get lower results. At Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Primary Education, 72% of pupils are on free school meals and 80% meet the expected standard; a typical school in England with that intake reaches 48%. Results and intake ↓
Written from the Department for Education and Ofsted data on this page.
School Grade
Hammersmith and Fulham grades A+ for schools
Against every town in England with results; Wales publishes none.
Primary: reading, writing and maths at 11 (76% meet the standard)Better than 97% of towns in England
Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths (56.7 and 65%)Better than 95% of towns in England
Each of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 36 primaries: % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (2023–25)
Each of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 11 secondaries: Attainment 8 (2025/26)
England’s average schoolHammersmith and Fulham’s average school
The primary figure: 37 primaries in the town, 3,711 pupils in results over three years. The secondary figure: 11 secondaries in the town, 1,432 pupils in results. Mainstream state schools only (grammar schools included); special schools, alternative provision, nurseries and 16–19 colleges are listed below but not graded. Each school’s results are compared with every school in England, then weighted by its pupils.
Map
Where Hammersmith and Fulham’s 58 state schools are
Each school at its address, coloured by its own letter and sized by pupils. Open a school for its own page. The dashed shape is Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area.
PrimarySecondarySpecial, nursery, 16–19Size: pupilsABCDNo letter
Most schools give places by distance once siblings are in, so the schools nearest a home matter more than any league table.
Results and intake
Which schools do better than their intake suggests
Schools with more pupils on free school meals tend to get lower results. The dashed line is the typical school in England for each level of free school meals; the band holds the middle two-thirds. A dot above the band is doing better than schools like it.
Primaries: KS2 reading, writing and maths against free school meals
Secondaries: Attainment 8 against free school meals
The share of pupils on free school meals runs from 0% at William Morris Sixth Form to 72% at Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Primary Education. Against schools with the same intake, Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Primary Education does best: 80% with 72% on free school meals, where a typical school would reach 48%. 32 of 35 primaries and 11 of 11 secondaries are above the line.
Free school meals: pupils eligible now, DfE January 2026 census. The typical-school line is a straight-line fit across every graded school in England. It describes; it doesn’t grade: the School Grade uses results alone.
Getting a place
How school places work in Hammersmith and Fulham
Hammersmith and Fulham Council handles applications for every state school in Hammersmith and Fulham, academies included. You apply to the council where you live, even for a school in another area.
Secondary (starting at 11)Apply by 31 October of Year 6. Offers on 1 March.
Primary (starting in Reception)Apply by 15 January before the September your child starts. Offers on 16 April.
Moving mid-yearApply to the council for an in-year place; it tells you which schools have room.
When a school is full
Every school publishes its admissions rules. Children in care come first, then, at most schools, brothers and sisters of current pupils, then those who live nearest. 17 of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 48 mainstream schools have a religious character; some of them give priority by church attendance, so check each school’s rules. Infant classes are limited to 30 by law. If you’re refused a place, you can appeal to an independent panel.
Pupils on roll as a share of the school’s official capacity. The black tick is 100%; 11 schools are at or over it.
Langford incl. nursery179%
Lady Margaret152%
Sacred Heart High140%
The London Oratory113%
Good Shepherd incl. nursery111%
The Hurlingham108%
The Fulham Boys103%
West London Free School101%
West London Free101%
Earl's Court Free School100%
Show all 47 schools
St Peter's100%
St Stephen's incl. nursery100%
Larmenier & Sacred Heart incl. nursery99%
John Betts98%
Hammersmith98%
St John's Walham Green incl. nursery96%
Ark Conway incl. nursery95%
Miles Coverdale94%
Holy Cross incl. nursery94%
St Augustine's93%
Brackenbury incl. nursery91%
William Morris Sixth Form90%
Kenmont incl. nursery89%
Greenside incl. nursery88%
Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Education incl. nursery86%
All Saints incl. nursery86%
Old Oak incl. nursery85%
Avonmore incl. nursery84%
Wendell Park incl. nursery83%
Fulham Cross82%
Flora Gardens incl. nursery80%
St Mary's incl. nursery76%
Ark White City incl. nursery73%
New King's Road incl. nursery72%
St John XXIII incl. nursery68%
Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College67%
Wormholt Park incl. nursery66%
Ark Burlington Danes65%
Ark Bentworth incl. nursery65%
Melcombe60%
St Paul's incl. nursery58%
Queen's Manor incl. nursery55%
Fulham incl. nursery54%
Phoenix53%
Addison incl. nursery48%
Sulivan incl. nursery47%
Sir John Lillie incl. nursery42%
DfE register of schools (GIAS), January 2026 census. Capacity often excludes a nursery class, so a school with a nursery can show over 100%.
The schools
58 state schools in Hammersmith and Fulham
Each school’s own letter compares its results with every state school in England of the same phase: Key Stage 2 for primaries, GCSEs for secondaries. Open a school for its results, how its letter is worked out, Ofsted and a map.
Letters of Hammersmith and Fulham’s schoolsA32B7C8D011 without a letter
Key result: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths (GCSEs, 2025/26 provisional) for secondaries; the share meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (KS2, DfE’s three-year average) for primaries. Pupils: the January 2026 school census. No letter: an infant or first school (no KS2 tests), a new school, a small cohort DfE suppresses, or a special school, nursery or college. Independent schools aren’t included.
Ofsted
Ofsted report cards
Each school’s latest inspection; report cards replace one-word judgements as schools are re-inspected.
Outstanding 11Good 14Report card 4Ungraded inspection only 29
Ofsted stopped giving one-word judgements in 2024. Until a school is re-inspected, its last overall judgement is its most recent single grade; a school judged years ago may have changed a lot since.
Since November 2025 Ofsted gives each area of a school one of five grades (exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention, urgent improvement) and says whether safeguarding is met, instead of one overall word. 4 of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 58 state schools have a report card so far; the others show their last inspection under the old framework. Ofsted is never part of the School Grade.
Academies are state schools run by a trust rather than the council: the trust employs the staff and can set its own curriculum and term dates. Admissions still go through the council.
Run by
Schools
Pupils
Their letters
United Learning TrustThe Hurlingham, Langford, Fulham, Sulivan, Queen's Manor
5
1,624
AA+B−C+C+
Ark SchoolsArk Burlington Danes, Ark White City, Ark Conway, Ark Bentworth
4
1,439
C+CA+A
Knowledge Schools TrustWest London Free, West London Free School, Earl's Court Free School
3
1,559
AA+A
Saint John Southworth Catholic Academy TrustSt John XXIII, St Augustine's, St Thomas of Canterbury
3
498
A+AA
Bourne Education TrustFulham Cross, Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College
Sacred Heart High School HammersmithSacred Heart High
1
1,113
A
Hammersmith Academy TrustHammersmith
1
954
A
Fulham Boys School LimitedThe Fulham Boys
1
822
A+
Lady Margaret SchoolLady Margaret
1
817
A+
Future AcademiesPhoenix
1
582
A−
Elliot Foundation Academies TrustGreenside
1
206
A+
Quality First Education TrustNew King's Road
1
151
B
Westside Academy TrustWestside
1
6
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Hammersmith and Fulham CouncilWilliam Morris Sixth Form, Holy Cross, St Stephen's, Larmenier & Sacred Heart, St John's Walham Green, Wendell Park, Wormholt Park, Brackenbury, Good Shepherd, Normand Croft Community School for Early Years and Education, Kenmont, St Peter's, John Betts, Old Oak, All Saints, Addison, Miles Coverdale, Avonmore, St Mary's, Sir John Lillie, Flora Gardens, Cambridge, St Paul's, Melcombe, Randolph Beresford Early Years Centre, Woodlane High, Jack Tizard, Vanessa Nursery, Bayonne Nursery, James Lee Nursery
30
7,176
A+A+AA−AC+A−A+AB+A+A+CAA+AB+AB+B−C+C
After 16
Where Hammersmith and Fulham’s teenagers go at 16
In England young people stay in education or training until 18: a sixth form, a college, or an apprenticeship.
9 of Hammersmith and Fulham’s 11 state secondaries have sixth forms: Ark Burlington Danes, Fulham Cross, Hammersmith, Lady Margaret, Phoenix, Sacred Heart High, The Fulham Boys, The London Oratory and West London Free. William Morris Sixth Form is a state 16–19 school in the London borough. Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, a further-education college, is in the London borough.
Secondaries with a sixth form
9 of 11
state schools in Hammersmith and Fulham
Colleges within 12 miles
4
nearest: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
Special schools and alternative provision in Hammersmith and Fulham
Hammersmith and Fulham has 4 special schools (Cambridge, Jack Tizard, Ormiston Queensmill and Woodlane High: 576 pupils) and 2 alternative provision schools, for pupils who can’t attend mainstream school for a time. A special-school place isn’t applied for like a mainstream one: for a child with an education, health and care plan (EHCP), Hammersmith and Fulham Council names the school in the plan, after asking the family’s preference. These schools have no letter, because their results don’t compare with mainstream schools’. Their cards ↑
Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s SEND Local Offer lists support beyond these schools.
Towns its size
2nd of 37 English towns and cities of 128,000 to 246,000
Ranked by School Grade, best first: the towns and cities either side of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the top and bottom of the group.
Hammersmith and Fulham’s schools are graded at least as well as any neighbour’s. Small places often use the schools within 3 km, so neighbours can share schools.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Expected standard at Key Stage 2. The share of 11-year-olds who reach the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, in tests and teacher assessment at the end of primary school. We use DfE’s three-year average (2023–2025) to steady small schools.
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Higher standard. The share working at greater depth in all three. In Hammersmith and Fulham: 21% (England’s average school: 8%).
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Attainment 8. A pupil’s GCSE grades across eight subjects, with English and maths counted twice, added up. 50 is roughly a grade 5 in every subject.
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Grade 5+ in English and maths. A strong pass in both. Grade 4 is a standard pass.
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Provisional. 2025/26 GCSE figures are DfE’s first release; revised figures follow in February, usually within a point.
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Progress 8. Not shown: there is none for 2025/26, because these pupils sat no KS2 tests in 2020 (Covid).
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Free school meals. Pupils eligible for free school meals now, from the January census: the usual measure of how many pupils come from low-income homes.
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Independent schools. Not included: they publish no results comparable with state schools’.
Questions about schools in Hammersmith and Fulham
Are schools in Hammersmith and Fulham good?
Hammersmith and Fulham’s state schools earn an A+ against schools across England: primary results beat 97% of towns in England; secondary results beat 95% of towns in England, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results. School places are handled by Hammersmith and Fulham council.
What is the best secondary school in Hammersmith and Fulham?
On 2025/26 GCSE results, Lady Margaret School: Attainment 8 of 64.7 and 79% with grade 5+ in English and maths, against 47.3 at the average school in England. Results are one measure; distance decides most places.
What is the best primary school in Hammersmith and Fulham?
On Key Stage 2 results over 2023–25, Addison Primary School: 91% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% at the average school in England.
Do Hammersmith and Fulham secondary schools have sixth forms?
9 of 11 do.
How do I apply for a school place in Hammersmith and Fulham?
Through Hammersmith and Fulham Council, for every state school including academies. Secondary applications close on 31 October (offers 1 March); primary on 15 January (offers 16 April).
How many schools in Hammersmith and Fulham are full?
11 of 47 mainstream schools have at least as many pupils as places, on DfE’s January 2026 census. A full school still admits by its rules, usually distance after siblings.
How many state schools are in Hammersmith and Fulham?
58 open state-funded schools are located in Hammersmith and Fulham’s built-up area: 36 primary, 11 secondary and 11 other (special schools, alternative provision, nurseries and 16–19). Independent schools aren’t included.
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 · DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), further-education and sixth-form colleges · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
