The Charter School North Dulwich A GSG School
- The Charter School North Dulwich
Red Post Hill
London
SE24 9JH - Head: Mr Mark Pain
- T 020 7346 6600
- F 020 7346 6601
- E info@charternorthdulwich.org.uk
- W www.charternor…dulwich.org.uk/
- The Charter School is an English state secondary school with academy status for boys and girls aged 11 to 18, located in Dulwich in the London borough of Southwark. It educates over 1,100 day pupils and originally opened in 2000.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Southwark
- Pupils: 1,286; sixth formers: 354
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: September
- 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 Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 7th June 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Strong on results, even stronger on progress. Secret weapon is believed to be the teachers – ‘the bread and butter of a school is the students’ five hours a day in the classroom – that has to be your starting point for success,’ says head. Students can expect to work hard from the off and that includes a tonne of homework, reckon pupils and parents (‘although they do try to make it interesting,’ said one parent). ‘Limited facilities’ are considered by parents to be something of a setback to sport, and it’s true that the school appears...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head teacher
Since 2022, Mark Pain. Previously deputy head (academic), he led the school's successful curriculum and assessment for many years. He oversaw the teacher assessed grades process during the summer of 2021 and is involved with the Ambition Institute, developing school leaders to improve the outcomes and opportunities for disadvantaged pupils.
Entrance
Over six applicants for every year 7 place – total number up for grabs now up from 180 to 192, the extra 12 places prioritised for pupil premium students as part of school’s attempt to ‘avoid being a middle class enclave’. Looked-after children, then siblings, get first dibs, then it’s down to distance - catchment currently at around 1,000 metres (straight line) from the school, which means the majority of the intake is from privileged Dulwich Village, Herne Hill and East Dulwich, although turning...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Approximately 9 statemented pupils per year group. Whole range catered for including those requiring 24 hour care. 09-09
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| 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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