Acland Burghley School A GSG School
- Acland Burghley School
Burghley Road
London
NW5 1UJ - Head: Mr Nicholas John
- T 020 7485 8515
- F 020 7284 3462
- E info@aclandburghley.camden.sch.uk
- W www.aclandburg…y.camden.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Camden
- Pupils: 1,174; sixth formers: 271; part of LaSWAP sixth form consortium
- Religion: Does not apply
- Open days: Please see school website for details.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 2
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 2
- 1 Short inspection 19th October 2023
- 2 Full inspection 6th March 2018
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Previous Ofsted grade: Requires improvement on 9th February 2016
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
This school is artistic on every level. ‘If your son doesn’t want to dance, this isn’t the school for him,’ one parent told us. ‘No room for alpha males here,’ said another. ‘It’s the best school for art in the world,’ said one pupil, and judging by the quality and quantity of artwork displayed, we would be hard pushed to disagree. A very urban school, situated in the side streets of Tufnell Park – once gritty, but nowadays showing a hint of Camden cool...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2015, Nicholas John. Read classics at Oxford, followed by a PGCE at Canterbury Christ Church University and then a NPQH. His first teaching job was at Springwood High School, a mixed comprehensive in King’s Lynn, followed by a post as second in the English department at Rosemary Muskar High School, and then head of faculty at Great Yarmouth High School for the next five years. In 2009 he got his first senior leadership position as deputy head of St Paul’s Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets, where he helped the school rise in the Ofsted ranks from ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’ in less than four years. GCSE results also improved significantly. During this time he also did some consultancy work for struggling schools in Brent and Greenwich.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
We do not want to elaborate on our SEN provision. GSG adds - as a state school they must adhere to The SEN Code of Practice. Nov 09.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| 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 | |
| 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
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| The Academy School | 2023 | 1 |
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