Ursuline High School Wimbledon
Merton, SW20 8HA · Merton local authority
Merton’s School Grade A better than 89% of towns in England
What stands out about Ursuline High School Wimbledon
- Its own letter, A: GCSE results better than 93% of England’s secondary schools
- 73% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 26 points above England’s schools
- 17% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted: Good, October 2021 (shown, not graded)
- 65% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (166 of 254)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SW20 8) sold for a median £675,000; Merton’s is £542,500
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 212 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Ursuline High School Wimbledon beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 63.2
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 94% of schools · Merton avg 53.6
Grade 5+ in English and maths 73%
A strong pass · higher than 92% of schools · Merton avg 57%
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 34 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
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 Ursuline High School Wimbledon?
65% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (166), 2020 (103), 2021 (79), 2022 (64), 2023 (43), 2024 (35), 2025 (66), 2026 (88). 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. Sancta Familia Catholic Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Merton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
65% got their first choice
Merton and Merton, side by side
2025/26All 9 graded secondaries in Merton. 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. Merton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ursuline High School Wimbledon | A | 17% | 63.2 |
| Ricards Lodge High School | A | 27% | 57.8 |
| Rutlish School | A | 24% | 56.1 |
| Wimbledon College | A | 24% | 56 |
| Harris Academy Wimbledon | A | 42% | 55.8 |
| Harris Academy Merton | A− | 38% | 54.4 |
| Harris Academy Morden | B+ | 47% | 50.9 |
| St Mark's Church of England Academy | C+ | 49% | 44.9 |
| Raynes Park High School | C+ | 43% | 43 |
Ursuline High School Wimbledon’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: Good, October 2021.
Living near Ursuline High School Wimbledon
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SW20 8, the school’s postcode sector
Merton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SW20 8 sell for well over Merton’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
25 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Merton, SW20 8HA
Ursuline High School Wimbledon: common questions
Is Ursuline High School Wimbledon a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its GCSE results are better than 93% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is A), with an Attainment 8 of 63.2 and 73% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2021.
How hard is it to get into Ursuline High School Wimbledon?
For September 2026, 254 families put Ursuline High School Wimbledon first and 166 of them were offered a place; 206 places were offered in all.
What is Ursuline High School Wimbledon’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2021).
How much do houses cost near Ursuline High School Wimbledon?
Homes in its postcode sector, SW20 8, sold for a median £675,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (515 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; Merton’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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