Mossbourne Community Academy A GSG School
- Mossbourne Community Academy
100 Downs Park Road
London
E5 8JY - Head: Miss Rebecca Warren
- T 020 8525 5200
- F 020 8528 5222
- E [email protected]
- W www.mca.mossbourne.org/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hackney
- Pupils: 1,322; sixth formers: 289
- Religion: Not Applicable
- Open days: Sixth Form Open Events: November
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 28th September 2021
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 13th January 2010
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
School has remained in the top one per cent in the country for value added ever since it opened, a feat the head puts down to several factors. First, they’ve created an environment with a ‘can do’ attitude, where it’s cool to learn. Second, there are exceptionally strong structures in place, with a strict uniform policy, ferocious discipline and meticulous monitoring with weekly target setting. The ’personalised learning agenda’ is certainly not just government jargon at this school. Third, young and eager teaching staff provide top quality teaching...
What the school says...
Mossbourne Community Academy is an all-ability secondary school offering places for boys and girls aged between 11 and 18 years. The Clivebourne Sixth Form Centre, opened in September 2009 and provides 300 places for students wishing to continue their studies post-GCSE.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since 2017, Rebecca Warren.
Entrance
Some 1,500 apply for the 216 places, making it one of the country’s most oversubscribed schools. The school is looking for a balanced intake: ‘We want a comprehensive – we don’t want a secondary modern.’ Applicants sit cognitive ability tests to divide into four equal ability bands. Fifty per cent of places in each band are given to those who live within the inner zone (up to 1km from the gates); 30 per cent of places go to those in the middle zone (1-2km) and 20 per cent to those in the outer zone (2-3km). Priority is given to looked-after children, those with a child protection plan, siblings, those with medical needs and children of staff. Further places by lottery, which school says prevents parents from buying their way into the...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Condition | Provision for in school |
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ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
Aspergers | |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
Dyscalculia | |
Dysgraphia | |
Dyslexia | |
Dyspraxia | |
English as an additional language (EAL) | |
Genetic | |
Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | Y |
Has SEN unit or class | |
HI - Hearing Impairment | |
Hospital School | |
Mental health | |
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
PD - Physical Disability | |
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
VI - Visual Impairment |
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
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