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
- 8 May 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 25 January 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 entry864 applications · 299 places offered · 296 named it first
- 2026 2.9; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.6
- 2025 2.9; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2024 2.9; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2023 3.0; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2022 3.3; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2021 3.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.7
- 2020 3.7; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.8
- 2019 3.8; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2018 4.1; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2017 3.8; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2016 3.7; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.3
- 2015 3.0; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.0
- 2014 4.1; 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 | 299 | 864 | 2.9 | 296 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 298 | 871 | 2.9 | 346 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2024 | 300 | 881 | 2.9 | 347 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2023 | 300 | 910 | 3.0 | 314 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2022 | 301 | 981 | 3.3 | 335 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2021 | 300 | 1,060 | 3.5 | 352 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2020 | 300 | 1,104 | 3.7 | 366 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2019 | 300 | 1,146 | 3.8 | 337 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2018 | 294 | 1,204 | 4.1 | 340 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2017 | 299 | 1,145 | 3.8 | 339 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2016 | 296 | 1,096 | 3.7 | 284 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 | 300 | 909 | 3.0 | 216 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2014 | 238 | 963 | 4.1 | 243 | 1.02 |
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.) | 287 | 47.4 | 45% | 67% | – |
| 2024/25 | 291 | 50.2 | 49% | 69% | – |
| 2023/24 | 286 | 47.2 | 50% | 67% | +0.20 |
| 2022/23 | 284 | 48.6 | 47% | 66% | +0.26 |
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
- Jo Richardson Community SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.9applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 0.3 km · Barking and DagenhamGraded · no overall grade20244.5applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20221.9applications per place 57.9Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Barking and Dagenham20263.0applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20243.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Barking and DagenhamStandards maintained20252.2applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Barking and DagenhamRemains Good20242.6applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Barking and DagenhamStandards maintained20242.2applications per place 45.8Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · RedbridgeOutstanding20233.2applications per place 54.1Attainment 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
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 133561 · 301/4029
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,700 pupils · 1,696 on roll
- Free school meals
- 38.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- SEN unit
- Opened
- 1 September 2002
- Address
- Castle Green, Gale Street, Dagenham, RM9 4UN
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources