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Nightingale Community Academy

Special schoolAges 5–19AcademySixth form

Wandsworth, SW17 7DF · Wandsworth local authority

Wandsworth’s School Grade A better than 92% of towns in England

How full
139 pupils
58% of its 238 places
Free school meals
73%
73 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Nightingale Community Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 139 pupils for 238 places
  • 73% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SW17 7) sold for a median £625,000; Wandsworth’s is £650,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 21 pupils

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

Attainment 8 7.2

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Wandsworth avg 52.8

20304050607080England avg 47.3Nightingale Community 7.2

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Wandsworth avg 58%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Nightingale Community 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
13.6
2024/25
16.2
2025/26
7.2

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.47: 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% · Wandsworth 75% · 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

137 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
2.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
83.5%England 26.2%
Its letter

No letter for Nightingale Community Academy

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.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Sixth formExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, September 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Nightingale Community Academy

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

Home prices in SW17 7, the school’s postcode sector

Wandsworth property prices →
£625,000
median sale, 546 sales in 36 months · Wandsworth £650,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025SW17 7Wandsworth
SW17 7Wandsworth

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£1.5M
Terraced
£1M
Flat
£500K
SW17 7Wandsworth

Homes in SW17 7 sell for a little under Wandsworth’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

43 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+A−B+A−BABA+C−BDCA+A+BA−A−A+A+B−B+AB+B+AAAABB−AB+C+DBA−BB+A−Nightingale Community Acade…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Wandsworth, SW17 7DF

Nightingale Community Academy: common questions

What is Nightingale Community Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Nightingale Community Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, SW17 7, sold for a median £625,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (546 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; Wandsworth’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.