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Ian Mikardo High School

Special schoolAges 11–18AcademyBoysSixth form

Tower Hamlets, E3 3LF · Tower Hamlets local authority

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

How full
67 pupils
87% of its 77 places
Free school meals
68%
68 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Ian Mikardo High School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 68% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E3 3) sold for a median £374,500; Tower Hamlets’s is £500,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 9 pupils

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

Attainment 8 6.1

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

20304050607080England avg 47.3Ian Mikardo High 6.1

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%Ian Mikardo High 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
3.4
2024/25
5.7
2025/26
6.1
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

50 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
22%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
94.1%England 26.2%
Its letter

No letter for Ian Mikardo High 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.

Graded inspection: Good, June 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns), March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Ian Mikardo High School

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

Home prices in E3 3, the school’s postcode sector

Tower Hamlets property prices →
£374,500
median sale, 364 sales in 36 months · Tower Hamlets £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E3 3Tower Hamlets
E3 3Tower Hamlets

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£590K
Flat
£370K
E3 3Tower Hamlets

Homes in E3 3 sell for well 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

59 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+B+B−AAB−A−AC+A−B+B+B−C+ABC+C+BB−A−A−C+A−AB−BCABBABA−BA−B+AA+B+A−B+A−A−AAAAAB+B+C−A+C+B+BAIan Mikardo High School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Tower Hamlets, E3 3LF

Ian Mikardo High School: common questions

What is Ian Mikardo High School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Ian Mikardo High School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E3 3, sold for a median £374,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (364 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.