Kelmscott School


Kelmscott School is a secondary comprehensive school in Walthamstow, East London, UK. The school has approximately 900 pupils aged 11–16. In 2008 the school underwent an £11.2m refurbishment as part of the Building Schools for the Future program. The current headteacher is Mr Sam Jones.
Kelmscott School serves an ethnically diverse community, with the largest group of students being of Asian Pakistani heritage. Three in every five students speak a first language other than English, of whom over 50 are at an early stage of learning English. One student in six joins the school after the beginning of Year 7.

Academic performance

The following are the percentage of pupils achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE upon leaving the school in recent years.
The school's most recent Ofsted Inspection in May 2016 placed Kelmscott in the "Good" category.

Notable former pupils

The professional footballer Fabrice Muamba is a former student of Kelmscott School, along with fellow alumnus Marvin McCoy who plays for League 1 side Wycombe Wanderers.