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Bishop Challoner Boys' School

URN
133289
Phase
Secondary
Status
Closed

School overview

School name
Bishop Challoner Boys' School
URN
133289
Phase
Secondary
Gender
Boys
Age range
11-16
Status
Closed

School Compass Score

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School Compass rankings

School rankings are not currently available.

School Compass recommendation

Recommendations are not currently available.

Admissions strategy

Application strategy guidance is not currently available for this school.

Crime & Safety

  • Safety score: Higher Risk
  • National comparison: Higher crime than average
  • Crime trend: Stable trend
  • Confidence: High confidence

Higher share of violent and serious offences than typical

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Available in the full Parent Report:

  • Crime categories in the surrounding area
  • Local authority and nearby-school comparisons
  • Safety trends over the past year
  • Area context and confidence notes

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Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.

  • Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.
  • This section reflects police-recorded crime in the surrounding area, not incidents on school premises.
  • Figures are anonymised by the police and aggregated within approximately one mile of the school site.

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Ofsted inspections

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Admissions

Moderate pressure

Official Department for Education applications and offers data for Secondary Transfer in academic year 2023/24.

Academic year

Academic year

2023/24

Published admission number (PAN)

Published admission number (PAN)

134

Places offered by the school

Applications received

Applications received

147

Times listed as any preference

Offers made

Offers made

79

Preferred offers from this school

Oversubscription ratio

Oversubscription ratio

1.1×

Applications per place

Offer rate

Where to apply

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Local authority
Tower Hamlets
Admissions portal
GOV.UK — apply for a secondary school place (Tower Hamlets)
Application deadline
31 October 2026 (on-time deadline for secondary entry, September 2027)

If the portal link opens GOV.UK, select Tower Hamlets to reach your council's application system.

Performance & outcomes

Official Department for Education attainment and outcomes data. Suppressed or unpublished figures are shown as “Not published”.

Key stage 4 destinations

Key stage 4 destinations data for leaver academic year 2022/23

Sustained destination measures for pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2022/23 (destinations in 2023/24).

Education destination

Education %

90.0%

Employment destination

Employment %

1.0%

Apprenticeship destination

Apprenticeships %

1.0%

Not in education, employment or training

NEET %

4.0%

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education performance and outcomes statistics (England).

Location

E1 0LB - 352 Commercial Road, London

Contact details

Address
352 Commercial Road, London
Postcode
E1 0LB
Phone
-
Website
-
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Administrative details

Local authority name
Tower Hamlets
Local authority code
211

School insights

Local authority context

This school is one of 187 schools in Tower Hamlets.

Authority statistics

Total schools

187

Open schools

115

Closed schools

72

Primary schools

100

Data quality

Last updated
14 June 2026
Last imported
14 June 2026

Dates reflect the latest GIAS import and any recorded closure date for this school.

  • Not all crime is reported to the police. Small areas can vary significantly year to year.
  • Source: data.police.uk under the Open Government Licence; population from ONS.
  • Offer rate

    53.7%

    Offers as a share of applications

    First preference offers: 48

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education school applications and offers statistics.

    Secondary schools

    26

    Special schools

    0

    Phase distribution

    • Primary100 (55.6%)
    • Secondary26 (14.4%)
    • Special0 (0.0%)
    • Other54 (30.0%)

    Nearby schools

    School nameDistancePhaseStatus
    Bishop Challoner Catholic School126 mSecondaryOpen
    Bishop Challoner Catholic School126 mSecondaryClosed
    Marion Richardson Primary School232 mPrimaryOpen
    St Mary and St Michael Primary School248 mPrimaryOpen
    St Mary's and St Michael's Infant School248 mPrimaryClosed
    St Mary and St Michael's Junior School248 mPrimaryClosed
    Old Church Nursery School432 mNurseryClosed
    Blue Gate Fields Junior School471 mPrimaryOpen
    Blue Gate Fields Infants' School471 mPrimaryOpen
    Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School494 mSecondaryOpen
    • Bishop Challoner Catholic School
      Distance
      126 m
      Phase
      Secondary
      Status
      Open
    • Bishop Challoner Catholic School
      Distance
      126 m
      Phase
      Secondary
      Status
      Closed
    • Marion Richardson Primary School
      Distance
      232 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open
    • St Mary and St Michael Primary School
      Distance
      248 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Open

    Similar schools

    Same phase (Secondary) and local authority (Tower Hamlets)

    School namePhasePostcodeStatus
    Bethnal Green Technology CollegeSecondaryE2 6NWClosed
    Bishop Challoner Catholic SchoolSecondaryE1 0LBClosed
    Bishop Challoner Catholic SchoolSecondaryE1 0LBOpen
    Bow SchoolSecondaryE3 3QWOpen
    Canary Wharf College CrossharbourSecondaryE14 9GLOpen
    • Bethnal Green Technology College
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      E2 6NW
      Status
      Closed
    • Bishop Challoner Catholic School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      E1 0LB
      Status
      Closed
    • Bishop Challoner Catholic School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      E1 0LB
      Status
      Open
    • Bow School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      E3 3QW
      Status
      Open
    • Canary Wharf College Crossharbour
    St Mary's and St Michael's Infant School
    Distance
    248 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • St Mary and St Michael's Junior School
    Distance
    248 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • Old Church Nursery School
    Distance
    432 m
    Phase
    Nursery
    Status
    Closed
  • Blue Gate Fields Junior School
    Distance
    471 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • Blue Gate Fields Infants' School
    Distance
    471 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School
    Distance
    494 m
    Phase
    Secondary
    Status
    Open
  • Phase
    Secondary
    Postcode
    E14 9GL
    Status
    Open