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Bishop Challoner Catholic School

Bishop Challoner Catholic School is a secondary school (Academy converter), ages 11–18, in London, E1, in the Tower Hamlets council area. It has 867 pupils in the published census. Latest Ofsted inspection (24 November 2021): Good. It is listed as non-selective.

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Admissions

Published admissions history
Entry yearLast distance offeredPlaces (PAN)ApplicationsOffers
2025
Band A: All offered
210
216
Not published
2024
Band A: All offered
270
278
Not published

“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.

Primary: "Home to school distances will be measured using the shortest walking route" (note 6); catchment-area applicants are prioritised ahead of the borough-wide distance criterion, so the published distance only applies to the (few) places offered to applicants outside their catchment area, and is published in metres (converted to miles here). Secondary: places are allocated mostly by a borough-wide banding test (four bands, by cognitive ability), with distance as the tie-break within each band; the method of measuring that distance is not stated in the prospectus (the table header says "last offer on distance in meters"; converted to miles here).

Places are allocated mostly by a borough-wide banding test (Band A-D, by cognitive ability), with distance the tie-break within each band; "n/a" published for a band means every applicant in that band was offered a place. Published as "last offer on distance in meters"; converted to miles here.

Ofsted

Good — inspected 24 November 2021.

AreaJudgement
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective
Yes
Sixth form
Good

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Term dates

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Results

MeasureResultAcademic year
Progress 8
-0.27
2023/24
Attainment 8
44.6
2024/25
GCSE grade 5+ in English & maths (%)
46.2
2024/25
KS4 pupils
208
2024/25
A level average point score per entry
34.71
2024/25
A level average grade per entry
C+
2024/25
A level students
44
2024/25

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

MeasurePupils / percentageData period
Pupils
867
2025/26
Eligible for free school meals
31.8%
2025/26
English as an additional language
24.2%
2025/26
SEN support
16.05%
2024/25
Education, health and care (EHC) plan
3.19%
2024/25

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