State-fundedAcademy converter · Lewisham · SE4 1LE · Girls only
Secondary with sixth form · ages 11–18
Prendergast School is a state-funded school in Lewisham, teaching pupils aged 11 to 18. It admits girls only.
No Progress 8 or Attainment 8 figures are published for this school. That usually means it is newly opened, has a cohort too small for figures to be published without identifying pupils, or is a special school for which the measures are not calculated.
159 families named this school first for 115 places for 2026 entry — 1.38 first preferences per place.
| 2026 entry | 2025 entry | 2024 entry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per place | 1.38× | 1.47× | 1.39× |
This is how sought-after a school is, not how good it is — demand tracks house prices and older siblings as much as anything a school does. It is also not your chance of getting in: a school with two applicants per place can still admit everyone living near it, while a less popular school a mile further away turns you down. Distance is usually what decides it, and that depends on your address.
| Overall absence | 6.8%81st percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 18.2%81st percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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