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Lift Newlands

Special schoolAges 11–16AcademyBoys

Southwark, SE15 3AZ · Southwark local authority

Southwark’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England

How full
79 pupils
113% of its 70 places
Free school meals
65%
65 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Lift Newlands

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 79 pupils for 70 places
  • 65% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SE15 3) sold for a median £557,500; Southwark’s is £545,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 20 pupils

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

Attainment 8 12.4

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Southwark avg 50.7

20304050607080England avg 47.3Lift Newlands 12.4

Grade 5+ in English and maths 5%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Southwark avg 53%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Lift Newlands 5%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
10.6
2024/25
18.3
2025/26
12.4

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.41: below 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).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths5%
England’s schools 66% · Southwark 72% · 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

78 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
5.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
94.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
75.6%England 26.2%
Its letter

No letter for Lift Newlands

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.

Graded inspection: Good, March 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), February 2020.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Lift Newlands

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

Home prices in SE15 3, the school’s postcode sector

Southwark property prices →
£557,500
median sale, 435 sales in 36 months · Southwark £545,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025SE15 3Southwark
SE15 3Southwark

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£808K
Semi-detached
£1M
Terraced
£885K
Flat
£437K
SE15 3Southwark

Homes in SE15 3 sell for about the same as Southwark’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

54 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+A−A+CC+B−BBAA−A+A−A−B+B−BBB+CCB+CA−C+A−B−AB+AB+C−C+A−A−B+A+BAA−A−C+A−AC+AC+BAC−AA−CLift Newlands
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Southwark, SE15 3AZ

Lift Newlands: common questions

What is Lift Newlands’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Lift Newlands?

Homes in its postcode sector, SE15 3, sold for a median £557,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (435 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; Southwark’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.