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Marylebone Academy

SecondaryAges 11–19Free schoolBoysSixth form

Westminster, W2 1QZ · Westminster local authority

Westminster’s School Grade A better than 94% of towns in England

Its letter
56%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
32/32
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
561 pupils
59% of its 950 places
Free school meals
55%
55 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Marylebone Academy

  • Its own letter, B: GCSE results better than 56% of England’s secondary schools
  • Room to spare: 561 pupils for 950 places
  • 55% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (32 of 32)
  • Progress 8 of +0.16 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
  • Homes in its postcode sector (W2 1) sold for a median £869,500; Westminster’s is £905,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 114 pupils

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

Attainment 8 45

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 43% of schools · Westminster avg 52.8

20304050607080England avg 47.3Marylebone 45

Grade 5+ in English and maths 52%

A strong pass · higher than 66% of schools · Westminster avg 59%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Marylebone 52%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
52.4
2024/25
48.6
2025/26
45

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

+0.16: about 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 53 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
41.8England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
47.7England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths64%
England’s schools 66% · Westminster 74% · 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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Marylebone Academy?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

32
families put it first for September 2026
65
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. United Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Westminster council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools in Westminster, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

2.35 per place
38% got their first choice
1.97 per place
41% got their first choice
1.70 per place
54% got their first choice
0.95 per place
72% got their first choice
0.66 per place
100% got their first choice
0.66 per place
99% got their first choice
0.53 per place
98% got their first choice
0.52 per place
100% got their first choice
Marylebone
0.49 per place
100% got their first choice
0.48 per place
100% got their first choice

Westminster and Westminster, side by side

2025/26

All 11 graded secondaries in Westminster. 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. Westminster’s schools are coloured by their letter.

40455055606510%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →Attainment 8 →Marylebone
ABCDElsewhere in WestminsterMarylebone
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsAttainment 8
The Grey Coat HospitalA30%62.9
The St Marylebone CofE SchoolA26%62.8
Paddington AcademyA53%57.8
Pimlico AcademyA−58%55.9
St George's Catholic SchoolA−37%54.5
Harris Academy St John's WoodA68%54
Ark King Solomon AcademyB+65%50.4
Westminster City SchoolB47%48.8
Westminster AcademyB−55%46
Marylebone AcademyB55%45
St Augustine's Federated Schools: CE High SchoolC58%42.7

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

634 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
10.9%England 14%
EHC plan
5.1%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
60.4%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
49.1%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 6%Boys 94%
Its letter

Marylebone Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths BBetter than 56% of 3,224 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Marylebone Academy

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

Home prices in W2 1, the school’s postcode sector

Westminster property prices →
£869,500
median sale, 154 sales in 36 months · Westminster £905,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£400K£600K£800K£1M£1.2M£1.4M£1.6M2010201520202025W2 1Westminster
W2 1Westminster

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£1.7M
Flat
£832K
W2 1Westminster

Homes in W2 1 sell for a little under Westminster’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

41 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAA+A+A+C+AA−A−BAB+B+A+B−AA−A+A+CACCA−A+CCAB−B+B−AAA−BC+ABAC+A+BMarylebone Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Westminster, W2 1QZ

Marylebone Academy: common questions

Is Marylebone Academy a good school?

By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 56% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B), with an Attainment 8 of 45 and 52% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, November 2022.

How hard is it to get into Marylebone Academy?

For September 2026, 32 families put Marylebone Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 65 places were offered in all.

What is Marylebone Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).

How much do houses cost near Marylebone Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, W2 1, sold for a median £869,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (154 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; Westminster’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.