Big Creative Academy
Big Creative Academy is a free schools 16 to 19 in London for boys and girls aged 16 to 19. It has 0 pupils and room for 500. About 0 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in England.
38, Clifton Avenue, Walthamstow, London, E17 6HL020 8498 3300bigcreative.educationPrincipal Sacha Corcoran msAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
A level and sixth-form results, 2025
285 students finished sixth-form courses.
All sixth-form measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 285 | 248 | 228 | 216 | 232 | 228 |
| Average A level grade | – | z | z | – | NE | NE |
| Applied general courses: points per entry | 27.91 | 27.43 | 27.12 | 24.93 | – | – |
Getting a place
Open to all. There is no entrance test.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Waltham Forest council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
Specialist SEND provision. Resourced provision (extra staff and funding within a mainstream school) and SEN unit with 419 pupils and a SEN unit with 124 pupils, for autism, hearing impairment, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, other needs, physical disability, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, specific learning difficulties.
To get a place in the unit or resourced provision, a child normally needs an education, health and care plan (EHCP) that names the school. Other schools in Waltham Forest with autism provision.
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 0 | 0 |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 0% | 0% |
What pupils do next
After sixth form
Where the 205 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 71%, compared with 75% for everyone else.
Where the ones heading for university went
Among students from low-income families, 41% went on to degree-level study or training.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers | 2019/20 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 73% | 67% | 72% | – |
| Education | 44% | 43% | 50% | – |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 2% | 3% | 0% |
| Work | 27% | 23% | 19% | – |
| Not in education, work or training | 21% | 26% | 23% | – |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2016 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willowfield School | Council | 300 m | 1,035 | Report card 2026 | 46 | Compare |
| Stoneydown Park School | Council | 310 m | 631 | Good 2023 | 85 | Compare |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | Roman Catholic | 400 m | 344 | Good 2023 | 29 | Compare |
| Hillyfield Primary Academy | Academy | 570 m | 1,123 | Good 2024 | 83 | Compare |
| Big Creative Independent School | Independent | 580 m | 9 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Eden Girls' School, Waltham Forest | Free school | 690 m | 617 | Outstanding 2022 | 97 | Compare |
| Coppermill Primary School | Council | 810 m | 195 | Good 2024 | 86 | Compare |
| Mission Grove Primary School | Council | 830 m | 805 | Good 2023 | 13 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Big Creative Academy a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Big Creative Academy yet.
How many pupils does Big Creative Academy have?
0 pupils aged 16 to 19 were on the roll in January 2022. It has 500 places, so it is 0% full.
Does Big Creative Academy have specialist SEND provision?
Yes. It has resourced provision (extra staff and funding within a mainstream school) and sen unit for autism, hearing impairment, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, other needs, physical disability, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, specific learning difficulties. To get a place there, a child normally needs an education, health and care plan (EHCP) that names the school.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- 38, Clifton Avenue, Walthamstow, London, E17 6HL
- Telephone
- 020 8498 3300
- Website
- www.bigcreative.education
- Ms
- Principal Sacha Corcoran
- Type of school
- Free schools 16 to 19 (Free schools 16 to 19, free schools)
- Phase
- Sixth form / post-16, ages 16-19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Single-academy trust
- Big Creative Academy (1 schools)
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Ward
- William Morris
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 September 2014 (new provision)
- URN
- 141030 · LAESTAB 3204003 · UKPRN 10046350
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2022.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2016.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.