Schools in Tower Hamlets
108 schools in the Tower Hamlets local authority.
Schools
108
Open schools
Pupils
46,019
2025–26 census
Good or better
97%
89 of 92 graded
Academic Performance
6.9
out of 10 · 100 schools
Ofsted ratings
- Outstanding
- 27 29%
- Good
- 62 67%
- Requires improvement
- 2 2%
- Inadequate
- 1 1%
8 inspected since 2024, no overall grade9 superseded by a report card8 not judged1 safeguarding not effective
6.9
Academic PerformanceAveraged over 100 of 108 schools that can be scored
Pupils
46,019
pupils on roll
Boys 51%49% Girls
Ethnicity
White
12%Asian
67%Black
9%Mixed
8%Chinese
<1%Any other group
3%Unclassified
<1%Ethnicity from 93 of 108 schools (43,748 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.
Pupil characteristics
- Free school meals
- 43.6%
- First language not English
- 57.2%
- Young carers
- 1.0%
19,096 of 43,748 pupils · 93 of 108 schools
25,037 of 43,748 pupils · 93 of 108 schools
456 of 43,491 pupils · 90 of 108 schools
Schools by phase
- Primary
- 69
- Secondary
- 19
- Special
- 5
- Nursery
- 3
- PRU
- 1
- Not recorded
- 11
Top primary schools in Tower Hamlets
The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.St Agnes RC Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary10.0/10Outstanding
- 2.Stebon Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.9/10Outstanding
- 3.Stewart Headlam Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.9/10Outstanding
- 4.Bigland Green Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 5.Globe Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 6.Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm AcademyTower Hamlets · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 7.Solebay Primary - A Paradigm AcademyTower Hamlets · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 8.St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.8/10Outstanding
- 9.Bygrove Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.7/10Outstanding
- 10.Lansbury Lawrence Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 11.Mayflower Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 12.Marion Richardson Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.5/10Outstanding
- 13.Wellington Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.5/10Outstanding
- 14.Woolmore Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.5/10Outstanding
- 15.Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.2/10Outstanding
- 16.Canary Wharf College, GlenworthTower Hamlets · Primary9.1/10
- 17.Mowlem Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.1/10Outstanding
- 18.St Saviour's Church of England Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary9.1/10Outstanding
- 19.Canary Wharf College, East FerryTower Hamlets · Primary8.9/10Good
- 20.Sir William Burrough Primary SchoolTower Hamlets · Primary8.9/10
Top secondary schools in Tower Hamlets
The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.Swanlea SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary9.8/10Outstanding
- 2.Mulberry School for GirlsTower Hamlets · Secondary9.7/10Outstanding
- 3.Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary9.7/10Outstanding
- 4.Central Foundation Girls' SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary8.1/10Good
- 5.Oaklands SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary7.9/10Good
- 6.St Paul's Way Trust SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary7.8/10Good
- 7.George Green's SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary7.4/10Good
- 8.London Enterprise AcademyTower Hamlets · Secondary7.4/10
- 9.Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing CollegeTower Hamlets · Secondary7.0/10Good
- 10.Morpeth SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary6.7/10Good
- 11.Wapping High SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary6.4/10Good
- 12.Bishop Challoner Catholic SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary5.8/10Good
- 13.Langdon Park Community SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary5.6/10Good
- 14.Mulberry Academy ShoreditchTower Hamlets · Secondary5.6/10Good
- 15.Bow SchoolTower Hamlets · Secondary3.1/10Good
- 16.Canary Wharf College CrossharbourTower Hamlets · Secondary1.4/10Requires improvement
- 17.Mulberry UTCTower Hamlets · Secondary1.3/10
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About schools in Tower Hamlets
- How many schools are there in Tower Hamlets?
- Tower Hamlets has 108 open schools — 69 primary, 19 secondary, 5 special, 3 nursery, teaching 46,019 pupils in total.
- How many schools in Tower Hamlets are rated Good or Outstanding?
- 89 of the 92 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 97% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 27 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 108: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
- What is the average Academic Performance in Tower Hamlets?
- 6.9 out of 10, averaged across the 100 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 Tower Hamlets schools have no Ofsted rating?
- 16 schools in Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets 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. Tower Hamlets covers 108 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 Tower Hamlets are eligible for free school meals?
- 43.6% — 19,096 of 43,748 pupils at the 93 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.