United Kingdom / Regions / Waltham Forest
Waltham Forest
London, England · population ~277k · 78 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 69 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Waltham Forest
78 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (69 of 78 here), 98.1% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.3% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 78 schools.
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Highams Park School | Secondary | 1,547 | Good | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Chingford Foundation School | Secondary | 1,401 | Good | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Woodside Primary Academy | Primary | 1,285 | Outstanding· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Barclay Primary School | Primary | 1,265 | Outstanding· | 07/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodford County High School | Secondary | 1,245 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Holy Family Catholic School | Secondary | 1,211 | Good | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hillyfield Primary Academy | Primary | 1,194 | Good· | 05/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Buxton School | Secondary | 1,154 | Good· | 21/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Heathcote School & Science College | Secondary | 1,116 | Good· | 29/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kelmscott School | Secondary | 1,097 | Not graded | 15/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Walthamstow Academy | Secondary | 1,071 | Good· | 30/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Leytonstone School | Secondary | 1,029 | Good· | 29/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Willowfield School | Secondary | 1,004 | Good· | 06/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
George Mitchell School | Secondary | 1,004 | Good | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Davies Lane Primary School | Primary | 956 | Outstanding | 18/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Norlington School and 6th Form | Secondary | 902 | Good· | 30/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Walthamstow School for Girls | Secondary | 890 | Not graded | 04/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Frederick Bremer School | Secondary | 881 | Good· | 05/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Mission Grove Primary School | Primary | 844 | Good· | 12/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Newport School | Primary | 828 | Not graded | 29/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.