Schools in Hackney
104 schools in the Hackney local authority.
Schools
104
Open schools
Pupils
42,007
2025–26 census
Good or better
79%
73 of 92 graded
Academic Performance
6.0
out of 10 · 99 schools
Ofsted ratings
- Outstanding
- 24 26%
- Good
- 49 53%
- Requires improvement
- 11 12%
- Inadequate
- 8 9%
7 inspected since 2024, no overall grade5 superseded by a report card5 not judged1 safeguarding not effective
6.0
Academic PerformanceAveraged over 99 of 104 schools that can be scored
Pupils
42,007
pupils on roll
Boys 47%53% Girls
Ethnicity
White
36%Asian
11%Black
30%Mixed
14%Chinese
<1%Any other group
6%Unclassified
2%Ethnicity from 73 of 104 schools (31,618 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.
Pupil characteristics
- Free school meals
- 47.6%
- First language not English
- 38.6%
- Young carers
- <1%
15,036 of 31,618 pupils · 73 of 104 schools
12,196 of 31,618 pupils · 73 of 104 schools
97 of 31,397 pupils · 71 of 104 schools
Schools by phase
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 16
- Special
- 3
- Nursery
- 2
- PRU
- 2
- Not recorded
- 28
Top primary schools in Hackney
The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.Grazebrook Primary SchoolHackney · Primary10.0/10Outstanding
- 2.Southwold Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.9/10Outstanding
- 3.Gayhurst Community SchoolHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 4.Hackney New Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 5.Mandeville Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 6.Mossbourne Riverside AcademyHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 7.Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 8.William Patten Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 9.Kingsmead Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.7/10Outstanding
- 10.Sebright SchoolHackney · Primary9.7/10Outstanding
- 11.St John and St James CofE Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.7/10Outstanding
- 12.Morningside Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 13.Queensbridge Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 14.Shoreditch Park Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 15.St. Paul's With St. Michael's CofE Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 16.Shacklewell Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.5/10Outstanding
- 17.St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.1/10Outstanding
- 18.Northwold Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.0/10
- 19.Princess May Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.0/10Good
- 20.Simon Marks Jewish Primary SchoolHackney · Primary9.0/10Good
Top secondary schools in Hackney
The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.Mossbourne Community AcademyHackney · Secondary9.9/10Outstanding
- 2.Mossbourne Victoria Park AcademyHackney · Secondary9.9/10Outstanding
- 3.Clapton Girls' AcademyHackney · Secondary9.8/10Outstanding
- 4.The Bridge AcademyHackney · Secondary8.6/10Good
- 5.Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls SchoolHackney · Secondary8.6/10Good
- 6.City of London Academy, Shoreditch ParkHackney · Secondary8.5/10
- 7.Haggerston SchoolHackney · Secondary7.6/10Good
- 8.The City Academy, HackneyHackney · Secondary7.2/10Good
- 9.Stoke Newington School and Sixth FormHackney · Secondary6.6/10Good
- 10.Skinners' AcademyHackney · Secondary6.1/10Good
- 11.Waterside AcademyHackney · Secondary5.6/10Good
- 12.The Excelsior AcademyHackney · Secondary5.5/10Good
- 13.All Saints Catholic High SchoolHackney · Secondary3.6/10Good
- 14.Cardinal Pole Catholic SchoolHackney · Secondary2.8/10Good
- 15.Lubavitch House School (Senior Girls)Hackney · Secondary2.7/10Good
- 16.The Urswick School - A Church of England Secondary SchoolHackney · Secondary2.1/10Good
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About schools in Hackney
- How many schools are there in Hackney?
- Hackney has 104 open schools — 53 primary, 16 secondary, 3 special, 2 nursery, teaching 42,007 pupils in total.
- How many schools in Hackney are rated Good or Outstanding?
- 73 of the 92 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 79% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 24 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 104: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
- What is the average Academic Performance in Hackney?
- 6.0 out of 10, averaged across the 99 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
- Why do some Hackney schools have no Ofsted rating?
- 12 schools in Hackney currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
- What does Hackney local authority do?
- A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Hackney covers 104 schools and sits in the London region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
- How many pupils in Hackney are eligible for free school meals?
- 47.6% — 15,036 of 31,618 pupils at the 73 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.
Part of the London region.