West ’s finest secondary school revealed: See which school comes out top in the Real Schools Guide 2017*

The Real Schools Guide 2017 has released The top ten state funded secondary the definitive list of the best state-funded schools in west London are: schools in west London. 1] St Mark’s Catholic School, Hounslow The criteria for the list, compiled by 2] King Solomon , Westminster getwestlondon’s data unit, takes 50 different data 3] The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, points into account from GCSE performance to Ealing teacher-pupil ratios and absence rates. 4] Holland Park School, Kensington and Chelsea St Mark’s Catholic School, in Bath Road, 5] Whitmore High School, Harrow Hounslow tops our 2017 list of best secondary 6] The Green School, Hounslow schools. Second place on the prestigious 7] The , Westminster annual list went to Ark King Solomon Academy 8] Queensmead School, Hillingdon in while Greenford’s Cardinal 9] Gunnersbury Catholic School, Hounslow Wiseman Catholic School took third place. 10] Wembley High Technology College, Brent

*Information taken from www.getwestlondon.co.uk How do we rate this school? How The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School scores in terms of Rating 2017 Rating stars for each indicator Overall Stars 5 Overall Score 75.4 Star Ratings 2017 Stars England Rank (out of 3,088) 56 Attainment 5/5 Local Rank 1 Progress 5/5 Missing Data? No Attendance 5/5 Data missing (out of 54) 0 Outcomes 5/5

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Attainment In 2016 the average Attainment 8 score per pupil at The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School was 58. How have pupils at The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School done in their GCSEs and Group School LA National how does it compare to local authority and All pupils 58 51 48.5 national averages? Girl 60.5 53.5 51.2 The government introduced the Attainment 8 Boy 55.7 48.5 46 measure in 2016. It measures pupil performance across maths, which is double weighted in Disadvantaged 51.4 45.7 41.1 the score, English, also double weighted, Low attainment 38.2 31.8 28.9 three qualifications included in the English Middle attainment 57.1 52.4 49.2 Baccalaureate (EBacc) and three other approved High attainment 69 66.3 64.4 qualifications (GCSE or equivalent). The higher the English as an average score the better pupils at the school are 59.5 50.3 49.9 doing. additional language

In 2016, the most recent results available, How does The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic 82% of pupils at The Cardinal Wiseman School do when it comes to GCSE results in Catholic School gained at least 5 A* to C just English and Maths and what percentage grade GCSES including English and Maths. of pupils pass those at A* to C grades? Nationally 57.4% of pupils achieved this.

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