Graded inspection · May 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Barking and Dagenham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 1 May 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 9 March 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry697 applications · 240 places offered · 287 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.9; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.6
- 2025 2.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2024 2.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2023 2.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2022 2.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2021 2.7; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.7
- 2020 2.8; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.8
- 2019 3.4; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2018 3.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2017 3.4; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2016 3.3; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.3
- 2015 2.9; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.0
- 2014 2.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.7
- This school
- Barking and Dagenham median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 240 | 697 | 2.9 | 287 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 237 | 580 | 2.5 | 218 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 205 | 513 | 2.5 | 171 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2023 | 236 | 592 | 2.5 | 228 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 242 | 596 | 2.5 | 221 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2021 | 240 | 653 | 2.7 | 231 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 240 | 682 | 2.8 | 200 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2019 | 240 | 813 | 3.4 | 294 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2018 | 236 | 831 | 3.5 | 263 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2017 | 238 | 803 | 3.4 | 209 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2016 | 238 | 794 | 3.3 | 243 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2015 | 240 | 689 | 2.9 | 211 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2014 | 239 | 590 | 2.5 | 169 | 0.71 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 234 | 53.8 | 57% | 76% | – |
| 2024/25 | 229 | 56.1 | 60% | 78% | – |
| 2023/24 | 237 | 53.8 | 56% | 75% | +0.72 |
| 2022/23 | 231 | 54.0 | 59% | 74% | +0.45 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- All Saints Catholic School and Technology CollegeThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.9applications per place 53.8Attainment 8
- 0.2 km · Barking and DagenhamGood20232.3applications per place 51.1Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · Havering20262.1applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · Barking and Dagenham20252.9applications per place 39.6Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20242.6applications per place 46.4Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Barking and Dagenham20263.0applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Barking and DagenhamGraded · no overall grade202442.9Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · RedbridgeRemains Good20241.9applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · RedbridgeGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place 53.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 101247 · 301/4703
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,502 pupils · 1,345 on roll
- Free school meals
- 26.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Terling Road, Wood Lane, Dagenham, RM8 1JT
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources