SCHOOL PROFILE

Haberdashers' Borough Academy: data, trends and context

Haberdashers' Borough Academy is a secondary school in Southwark. This page brings together its published attendance, behaviour, attainment, inspection and pupil-context information, alongside historical trends and comparisons with schools serving similar communities.

School identity

URN
147073
Phase
Secondary
Establishment type
Free schools
Status
Open
Local authority
Southwark
Region
London
Trust
HABERDASHERS' ASKE'S FEDERATION TRUST
Postcode
SE1 0EX
Gender intake
Mixed
School website

Pupil and community context

Pupils on roll
983
FSM eligible
53.7%
EAL / First language other than English
32.8%
SEND (total)
21.5%
SEN Support
18.4%
EHCP
3.1%
White British
20.0%

Attendance and absence (2024/25)

Attendance rate
92.5%
Overall absence
7.5%
Persistent absence
22.9%
Severe absence
1.7%

Current benchmarks (2025/26 to date)

Secondary schools
ComparatorAttendanceOverall absenceUnauthorised
SouthwarkLocal authority93.0%7.0%3.0%
LondonRegion92.7%7.3%2.9%
EnglandEngland91.4%8.6%3.3%

Session-weighted year-to-date rates to 17 July 2026. Source: DfE Explore Education Statistics, pupil attendance (daily), published 6 August 2026. The school figures above are from a different published year, so no direct difference is shown.

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

Suspension rate
20.1%
Pupils with 1+ suspension
12.6%
Permanent exclusion rate
0.00%

Attainment and Progress 8 (2024/25)

Attainment 8
47.8
English & maths grade 5+
42.9%
English & maths grade 4+
66.9%

Data sources and last updated

  • Published Department for Education and Ofsted data.
  • Historical predecessor information is shown only where the DfE lineage record has been validated. It is clearly labelled as historical predecessor-establishment data.
  • Missing or suppressed values are shown as gaps, never as zero.
  • For interactive comparisons with 25 contextually similar schools, open this school in School DNA.
  • Profile last updated: 2026-07-07.

Contextual comparison

See Haberdashers' Borough Academy against 25 similar schools

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Haberdashers' Borough Academy is a secondary school in Southwark. This page brings together its published attendance, behaviour, attainment, inspection and pupil-context information, alongside historical trends and comparisons with schools serving similar communities.