Pupil Premium
At the West London Free School Secondary, our admissions policy ensures that 45 places per year are offered to children who receive the Pupil Premium Grant. This equates to 35% of the year group. We have designed this aspect of our policy to ensure that our school remains a community school, reflective of the social make-up of the area we serve.
We spend our Pupil Premium Grant on targeted school interventions which are most likely to benefit disadvantaged pupils. These include:
- small group teaching for pupils who require extra lessons in English and Maths.
- teaching assistants in lessons for disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs.
- extra staffing on Senior Leadership and Heads of Year teams to maintain high standards of behaviour throughout the school.
In addition, we use our Pupil Premium Grant to ensure that disadvantaged pupils do not miss out on paid-for co-curricular events such as:
- after-school clubs.
- trips.
- the school’s annual activities week.
- music lessons. As a music specialist school, we use the Pupil Premium Grant to provide subsidised music lessons to disadvantaged pupils who want to learn a musical instrument.
We are a school where pupil disadvantaged pupils, which includes those who receive the pupil premium grant, thrive. As a cohort, they significantly outperform the attainment of both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils nationwide. For example:
- Disadvantaged pupils at the WLFS achieved an Attainment 8 of 58.6 in 2025, compared to 34.9 for disadvantaged pupils nationwide. For disadvantaged pupils at non-selective schools, this was the 20th best Attainment 8 in the country.
- The proportion of disadvantaged pupils at the WLFS achieved a Grade 9 to 5 in English and Maths in 2025 was 72%, compared to 26% nationwide. For disadvantaged pupils at non-selective schools, this was the 16th best proportion of pupils achieving a good pass in English and Maths in the country.
- On all measures, the achievement of disadvantaged pupils at the WLFS has improved rapidly over the past three years. For example, for the proportion of disadvantaged pupils achieving a Grade 9 to 5 in English and Maths has increased from 42% (2023), to 61% (2024) to 72% (2025).
For further data, please see the table below.
Each year, a high number of disadvantaged pupils at the WLFS stay on to study for their A-levels at the WLFS Sixth Form. Many have gone on to start careers in areas such as the arts and policing. Others have gained places at leading universities both in Britain and abroad, such as the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Kings College London, Durham University, Bristol University, and Tufts University in the USA.
Please see below a link to our Pupil Premium Strategy for 2025-2026
