St Mary Magdalene Academy A GSG School
- St Mary Magdalene Academy
Liverpool Road
London
N7 8PG - Head: Ms V Linsley
- T 020 7697 0123
- E firstcontact@smmacademy.org
- W www.smmacademy.org
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Islington
- Pupils: 1,357; sixth formers: 322
- Religion: Church of England
- Open days: September (ticket required)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Early years provision Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 3rd July 2023
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 15th May 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- Linked schools: St Mary Magdalene Academy Primary School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The school has no qualms about saying that it has ‘a clear focus on academic achievement’ and it works to develop ‘globally-minded citizens who are happy and successful’. For financial reasons it has stopped teaching the IB, but the ethos has strongly influenced the curriculum and teaching. Inspire programme includes masterclasses (talks by Jeremy Corbyn and Nick Robinson recently, and the Grayson Perry talk was a sellout)...
What the school says...
A one class primary with a much larger intake at 11
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2012, Vicky Linsley: she joined the school as deputy head in 2008 and credit must go to her for the transformation of this school to a highly oversubscribed ‘extremely well run’ school with fantastic results. She was a scholarship child who studied history at Nottingham and then to Oxford for a master’s degree and her teaching qualification.
Youthful, energetic and pragmatic; pupils call her ‘inspiring’ and ‘really, really nice’. Very present around the school, she is generous with her praise of pupils and her pride in the school. An eloquent speaker, which helps her to build partnerships with businesses (Deloitte, Virgin Trains, local businesses). Teachers find her ‘approachable, she always has five minutes for us, even for small matters’. She has nurtured many and entrusted them with responsibilities, maintaining a...
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Results by exam and subject
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Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Lyceum School | 2023 | 1 |
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