London Academy of Excellence
- 16 to 19
- Free schools 16 to 19
- Ages 16 to 19
URN 138403 · Newham · LONDON ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Newham and England, secondary schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Newham
- 7.92
- England
- 21.24
21.24 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 0.00 | 6.42 | 10.13 |
| 2018/19 | 0.00 | 6.83 | 10.75 |
| 2019/20 | 0.00 | 4.35 | 7.43 |
| 2020/21 | 0.00 | 4.42 | 8.48 |
| 2021/22 | 0.00 | 5.94 | 13.96 |
| 2022/23 | 0.00 | 8.09 | 18.90 |
| 2023/24 | 0.00 | 11.03 | 22.61 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 7.92 | 21.24 |
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Newham
- 0.15
- England
- 0.23
0.23 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.20 |
| 2018/19 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.20 |
| 2019/20 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| 2020/21 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| 2021/22 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.16 |
| 2022/23 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.22 |
| 2023/24 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.25 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.23 |
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Pupils
Against Newham and England, secondary schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2535.8%
- Newham
- 45.1%
- England
- 25.8%
10.0 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 33.5% | 32.9% | 20.9% |
| 2022/23 | 40.5% | 35.9% | 22.7% |
| 2023/24 | 33.8% | 38.6% | 24.1% |
| 2024/25 | 35.8% | 45.1% | 25.8% |
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/253.1%
- Newham
- 8.7%
- England
- 13.4%
10.3 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 7.4% | 8.6% | 11.9% |
| 2022/23 | 3.2% | 8.3% | 12.4% |
| 2023/24 | 0.0% | 8.6% | 12.9% |
| 2024/25 | 3.1% | 8.7% | 13.4% |
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/250.2%
- Newham
- 3.1%
- England
- 3.1%
2.9 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 0.0% | 2.0% | 2.2% |
| 2022/23 | 0.0% | 2.5% | 2.4% |
| 2023/24 | 0.0% | 2.7% | 2.7% |
| 2024/25 | 0.2% | 3.1% | 3.1% |
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/2525.9%
- Newham
- 60.2%
- England
- 19.2%
6.7 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 14.9% | 60.2% | 17.5% |
| 2022/23 | 14.1% | 59.7% | 18.1% |
| 2023/24 | 13.0% | 59.5% | 18.6% |
| 2024/25 | 25.9% | 60.2% | 19.2% |
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Newham and England, secondary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2613.9
- Newham
- 16.6
- England
- 17.3
3.4 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 13.6 | 15.7 | 16.5 |
| 2018/19 | 14.3 | 15.0 | 16.8 |
| 2019/20 | 14.8 | 16.3 | 17.2 |
| 2020/21 | 15.3 | 15.8 | 17.1 |
| 2021/22 | 16.6 | 15.9 | 17.1 |
| 2022/23 | 26.9 | 16.4 | 17.2 |
| 2023/24 | 23.7 | 16.9 | 17.4 |
| 2024/25 | 13.9 | 16.5 | 17.3 |
| 2025/26 | 13.9 | 16.6 | 17.3 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/253.3 days
- Newham
- 5.3 days
- England
- 5.0 days
1.7 days lower than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
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| Year | This school | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 1.6 days | 3.5 days | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | 0.7 days | 3.9 days | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | 1.0 days | 4.1 days | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | 3.7 days | 5.9 days | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | 1.9 days | 5.4 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | 0.1 days | 5.7 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 3.3 days | 5.3 days | 5.0 days |
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 522
- Capacity
- 750
- Type
- Free schools 16 to 19
- Phase
- 16 plus
- Age range
- 16 to 19
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- LONDON ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 1 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Hawthorne House, 2 Farthingale Walk, London, E15 1LE
Website: www.lae.ac.uk
Telephone: 02033011480
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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