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Schools in the Lewisham local authority

Lewisham has 98 schools listed on OfferDay across 4 towns.

2 nursery schools · 64 primary schools · 10 secondary schools · 4 all-through schools · 2 sixth forms and colleges · 8 special and alternative provision schools · 6 independent schools · 2 other establishments

About schools in Lewisham

Lewisham lists 98 schools, most of them primary schools. Its ten secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. The area also has four all-through schools, which teach every age from the early years to school-leaving age on one site.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
68%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 71 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
47.4
average Attainment 8 score, across the 16 schools with published results

Top schools in Lewisham

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Haberdashers' Hatcham Free School 90%
  2. 2 Turnham Academy 88%
  3. 3 Trinity Church of England School, Lewisham 86%
  4. 4 Gordonbrock Primary School 85%
  5. 5 Eliot Bank Primary School 85%
  6. 6 Stillness Junior School 83%
  7. 7 St Matthew Academy 83%
  8. 8 Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 83%

Secondary

  1. 1 Prendergast School 64.0
  2. 2 Forest Hill School 52.3
  3. 3 Sydenham School 50.8
  4. 4 Bonus Pastor Catholic College 50.7
  5. 5 Haberdashers' Hatcham College 50.5
  6. 6 Prendergast Ladywell School 49.2
  7. 7 Trinity Church of England School, Lewisham 48.3
  8. 8 Deptford Green School 47.7

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Lewisham.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Lewisham

How many schools does Lewisham have?
OfferDay lists 98 schools in Lewisham, including 64 primary schools and ten secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Lewisham?
Every school in Lewisham is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Lewisham ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Lewisham does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Lewisham local authority?
OfferDay groups the Lewisham schools across four towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 24 July 2026.