Secondary school league tables

The Secondary School league tables have been published today.

Putney has a mixed bag of results: almost half of the entire borough's secondary schools can be found here, with our three fee-paying selective independent schools - Putney High School on Putney Hill, Ibstock Place on Clarence Lane, and The Hall School in Putney Vale - unsurprisingly doing best.

There is a huge gap in achievement between these schools and the rest, which is why we must keep increasing investment in education - and making sure that investment brings results.

The Ashcroft Technology Academy off West Hill did best of the "State" schools, while John Paul II School in Victoria Drive posted some worryingly low results. Elliott School in Pullman Gardens did pretty well - the best of the entirely non-selective schools in the borough with Southfields Community College a little way behind.

Wandsworth Council doesn't do very well as an education authority: despite being one of the more affluent London boroughs our GCSE results are only on par with the national average, and lag badly behind comparable neighbouring boroughs like Hammersmith & Fulham.

No small reason for the gulf between ourselves and Hammersmith & Fulham is that Wandsworth Conservatives underfund education by £8 million a year, whereas our northern neighbour, at least until recently, spent the maximum it was allowed to on schooling. So while I congratulate our schools for the efforts they make while being massively underfunded by Wandsworth Council, to the Conservative Council I say: must try harder.

Click here for the league table, courtesy of the BBC. The green and pink shaded rows denote Putney schools; the cream ones are other Wandsworth secondaries. The interactive BBC tables are here. My analysis of the Primary League tables, published last month, can be found here.