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New Woodlands School

Special schoolAges 5–16Community

Lewisham, BR1 5PD · Lewisham local authority

Lewisham’s School Grade B+ better than 73% of towns in England

How full
101 pupils
94% of its 108 places
Free school meals
80%
80 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about New Woodlands School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 80% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, December 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BR1 5) sold for a median £423,750; Lewisham’s is £465,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 9 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools New Woodlands beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 2.2

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Lewisham avg 48.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3New Woodlands 2.2

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Lewisham avg 49%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%New Woodlands 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
1.4
2025/26
2.2
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Lewisham 68% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

103 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.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
82.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 15%Boys 85%
Its letter

No letter for New Woodlands School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, December 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near New Woodlands School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in BR1 5, the school’s postcode sector

Lewisham property prices →
£423,750
median sale, 338 sales in 36 months · Lewisham £465,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025BR1 5Lewisham
BR1 5Lewisham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£630K
Semi-detached
£525K
Terraced
£406K
Flat
£275K
BR1 5Lewisham

Homes in BR1 5 sell for a little under Lewisham’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

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−DBAD−CB−CB+B−DC−B−B−C+AC+A−C+A+A−AA−CB−AB+B+A−BCNew Woodlands School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Lewisham, BR1 5PD

New Woodlands School: common questions

What is New Woodlands School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (December 2024).

How much do houses cost near New Woodlands School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BR1 5, sold for a median £423,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (338 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; Lewisham’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.