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City of London School

  • Ages 10 to 18
  • 1,040 pupils
  • EC4V 3AL
  • City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this school, ready for your child protection policy, your staff and your inspector.

Keeping children safe in education asks you to consider whether children are at risk outside their families. The report brings together what children's services across City of London, the police and the roads record around the school. It describes the area around the school. It never rates the school, its staff or its pupils.

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First finding · Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across City of London

Across City of London, too few assessments were recorded to compare the harms outside the home with England.

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KCSIEFor schools and colleges

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Why it matters

Schools must consider the risks children face outside their families. This gives you the local evidence to do it.

“should consider whether children are at risk of abuse or exploitation in situations outside their families”

Keeping children safe in education 2026, paragraph 21

What you get

  1. The evidence What the police, children's services and the roads record around the school, sourced and dated. For your child protection policy KCSIE paragraph 21
  2. The staff briefing One page and six slides on what the area means for your staff. For the yearly staff safeguarding update KCSIE paragraph 12
  3. The governors' paragraph Ready for the annual safeguarding report, with the inspector's questions answered. For governors' oversight and inspection Independent School Standards, paragraph 7

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  • Road collisions within 500 m 163 4 children injured, 32 in drop-off and pick-up hours, 55 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 8 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Bus stops within 500 m 26 nearest station or interchange: Blackfriars Underground Station, about 260 metres
  • Police-recorded crime Report only UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the police record around the school. Order the report
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. Three distances, each for a reason: 500 metres is the streets nearest the gate, about six minutes' walk; a kilometre takes in the routes in; a mile is the area UK Crime Statistics ranks against every other mile in England and Wales. Road collisions: Department for Transport road casualty statistics. Deprivation: English Indices of Deprivation and Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. Places: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (OS Open Greenspace), and National Public Transport Access Nodes. Public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across City of London

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH): share of assessments, City of London against England, the widest gap above England first

City of London England

  • Trafficking 0% against 0.4%
  • Child sexual exploitation 0% against 2.4%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 0% against 2.5%
  • Physical abuse by another child 0% against 3%
  • Child criminal exploitation 0% against 3.2%

This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never this school or its pupils, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

Local safeguarding arrangements

The school is covered by City & Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership, shared with Hackney.

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 1 November 2026.

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The register entry
Unique reference number
100003
Type
Other independent school
Type group
Independent schools
Status
Open
Phase
Not applicable
Age range
10 to 18
Gender
Boys
Religious character
None
Pupils on roll
1,040
UK provider reference number
10008165
Postcode
EC4V 3AL
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.cityoflondonschool.org.uk

Local authority: City of London (7 open schools and colleges).

About this school's place in the register

City of London School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 100003. Its type in the register is "Other independent school", in the group the Department calls "Independent schools". Its UK provider reference number is 10008165. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 2 November 2026.

The statutory age range is 10 to 18, which is the span of ages the school is registered to admit; the routes children take to the gate, and how independently they travel, follow from it. The intake is recorded as boys. At the last school census 1,040 pupils were on roll. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.

The school is in England, at postcode EC4V 3AL. Its grid reference is easting 531981, northing 180844, which is latitude 51.5111 and longitude -0.0995. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the parks, stops and stations nearby, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.

City of London School sits in the City of London local authority area, which has 7 open establishments in the register. The local authority is one of the three statutory safeguarding partners, with the integrated care board and the police, who together publish the local safeguarding arrangements and the threshold document a school's child protection policy refers to; the authority also sets out its early help offer, so the same authority context applies to every school in City of London.

The nearest schools in the register to City of London School are St Paul's Cathedral School (about 360 metres away), London Nautical, City of London Academy (about 800 metres away), City of London School for Girls (about 960 metres away), The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overie (1.0 km away) and Haberdashers' Borough Academy (1.0 km away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Schools close together share many of the same streets, stops and parks, but each page and report is measured from that school's own site.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.