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Phoenix School

Special schoolAges 3–19CommunitySixth form

Tower Hamlets, E3 2AD · Tower Hamlets local authority

Tower Hamlets’s School Grade A better than 88% of towns in England

How full
533 pupils
107% of its 500 places
Free school meals
61%
61 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Phoenix School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 533 pupils for 500 places
  • 61% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, April 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E3 2) sold for a median £450,000; Tower Hamlets’s is £500,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 50 pupils

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

Attainment 8 0.2

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Tower Hamlets avg 49.8

20304050607080England avg 47.3Phoenix 0.2

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

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

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Phoenix 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
0.4
2025/26
0.2

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.60: 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).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 39 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0.3England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
0England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Tower Hamlets 70% · 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

502 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
59.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
64.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 21%Boys 79%
Its letter

No letter for Phoenix 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: School remains Outstanding, April 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Phoenix School

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

Home prices in E3 2, the school’s postcode sector

Tower Hamlets property prices →
£450,000
median sale, 616 sales in 36 months · Tower Hamlets £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E3 2Tower Hamlets
E3 2Tower Hamlets

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£813K
Flat
£437K
E3 2Tower Hamlets

Homes in E3 2 sell for a little under Tower Hamlets’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

67 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBC+A−A−AAB+B−AAB−ABA−A−B−A−AB+C+A−A−AB+B+A−B−C+AB+BC+C+BB−BAA−A−C+B−BA−BBABA−BA−B+AA+A−A−AAAB+B+C−B+ADC+Phoenix School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Tower Hamlets, E3 2AD

Phoenix School: common questions

What is Phoenix School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (April 2024).

How much do houses cost near Phoenix School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E3 2, sold for a median £450,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (616 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; Tower Hamlets’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.