South Chingford Foundation School

South Chingford Foundation School is a secondary school (Academy sponsor led), ages 11–18, in London, E4, in the Waltham Forest council area. It has 547 pupils in the published census. Latest Ofsted inspection (20 January 2026): Report card: Needs attention in all 6 graded areas. It is listed as non-selective.

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Admissions

“All offered” means the published group had places for all eligible applicants; its distance is not a cut-off for admission.

Distances are in miles (mi), as in the map app. PAN is the published admission number. Bands and admission groups have separate criteria; school-wide places, applications and offers are not counts for each band. Past offers are a guide, not a promise of a place.

The published tables give the "Cut off Distance" (miles) with no stated measurement method. "n/a" is published whenever the school still had places available after all other criteria were applied (i.e. it did not need to use the distance criterion to refuse anyone that year).

90 place(s) remained unfilled after all criteria were applied: the distance criterion was never needed.

Waltham Forest admissions information and published allocations

Ofsted

Report card: Needs attention in all 6 graded areas — inspected 20 January 2026.

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Results

Progress 8 compares progress with pupils who had similar primary results; 0 is the national average. Its publication year can differ from the other GCSE results above.

Pupils

Nearby schools

Other schools in the same council and phase. Ordered by distance where coordinates are available, then by name; locations may be postcode centres.

• Walthamstow Academy
• Highams Park School
• Frederick Bremer School
• Holy Family Catholic School
• Walthamstow School for Girls
• Big Creative Independent School
• Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest
• Willowfield School