The 365 secondary schools in England which have failed to meet the Government minimum standards have been revealed.

The latest set of data put out by the Department For Education reveals which schools are under-performing in terms of Progress 8 scores.

While Dartford and Bromley schools received relatively good results, it was a different picture for Lewisham and Bexley.

Schools are judged on how much progress students make across eight subjects, with particular emphasis attached to English and maths.

These Progress 8 scores look at the progress a pupil has made between the end of primary school and the end of secondary school.

These scores are then compared to other students with similar abilities.

A secondary school is considered to be below the government’s standard if, on average, pupils score half a grade less (-0.5) across eight GCSEs than they would have been expected to compared to pupils of similar abilities nationally.

In Bromley, two of 18 (11.1 per cent) schools fell below the line while Greenwich had just one of its 13 schools (7.7 per cent) fail to meet the standard.

As a result both the boroughs ranked roughly in the middle of the pack compared to the rest of the country.

The same could not be said for Lewisham which saw four of 14 schools (28.6 per cent) fail to impress.

This was good for tied-13th worst in the country.

Not far behind, Bexley saw three of its 15 (20 per cent) fail to meet the Goverment standards.

A Lewisham Council spokesperson said: “The DfE publication of the GCSE results shows a mixed picture across Lewisham, especially in the progress made by the pupils from when they arrived in the school at 11 years old to when they took their GCSEs (progress 8).

“It is important to realise that the headline figures do have some health warnings:

  • Three of our secondary schools have ‘resource bases’ for pupils with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities. The progress of these students is not comparable with other students, nonetheless they are included in the overall data.
  • This is another year of change in exam regimes and how the results are reported.  There have been some significant fluctuations across London

“It is important too to note that overall Lewisham saw an improvement in attainment figures in 2017 and this reflects an improving picture from 2015. 

“Clearly this progress needs to speed up. As a council working in partnership with all our schools, we have not shied away from recognising that improvements are needed in the attainment and progress in our secondary schools.

"As a result we set up Lewisham Secondary Challenge in the summer of 2016 with the declared mission of improving the provision for all out pupils across all our schools.

"Since then we have seen an improvement in the Ofsted gradings of our secondary schools, improved school attendance, reduced exclusions and improvements in our GCSE attainment.

"Lewisham Secondary Challenge’s programme of improvement began last year and will operate at scale this year to improve outcomes for all Lewisham pupils.”