Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Newham
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 | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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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 entry656 applications · 113 places offered · 122 named it first
- 2026 5.8; Newham median median 3.0
- 2025 7.4; Newham median median 2.9
- 2024 7.5; Newham median median 3.0
- 2023 7.8; Newham median median 2.9
- 2022 7.5; Newham median median 2.8
- 2021 9.3; Newham median median 2.9
- 2020 8.9; Newham median median 2.8
- 2019 9.4; Newham median median 2.9
- 2018 6.0; Newham median median 3.1
- 2017 12.4; Newham median median 3.0
- 2016 11.7; Newham median median 3.2
- 2015 9.5; Newham median median 3.0
- 2014 8.4; Newham median median 3.2
- This school
- Newham median
Reception entry, September 2026: 2.9 per place (264 applications for 90 places).
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 113 | 656 | 5.8 | 122 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2025 | 120 | 890 | 7.4 | 190 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2024 | 112 | 841 | 7.5 | 189 | 1.69 |
| Sep 2023 | 117 | 909 | 7.8 | 197 | 1.68 |
| Sep 2022 | 115 | 859 | 7.5 | 208 | 1.81 |
| Sep 2021 | 116 | 1,074 | 9.3 | 221 | 1.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 118 | 1,053 | 8.9 | 200 | 1.69 |
| Sep 2019 | 115 | 1,086 | 9.4 | 186 | 1.62 |
| Sep 2018 | 198 | 1,195 | 6.0 | 268 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2017 | 93 | 1,156 | 12.4 | 215 | 2.31 |
| Sep 2016 | 104 | 1,217 | 11.7 | 342 | 3.29 |
| Sep 2015 | 126 | 1,196 | 9.5 | 384 | 3.05 |
| Sep 2014 | 110 | 924 | 8.4 | 289 | 2.63 |
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.) | 210 | 53.8 | 58% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 210 | 49.5 | 47% | 64% | – |
| 2023/24 | 209 | 50.6 | 52% | 69% | +0.16 |
| 2022/23 | 203 | 53.5 | 56% | 76% | +0.37 |
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
- Harris Academy ChobhamThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20255.8applications per place 53.8Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · NewhamGood20223.0applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · NewhamGraded · no overall grade202512.2applications per place 47.3Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · Newham20263.8applications per place 41.2Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20232.7applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Tower HamletsGraded · no overall grade202528.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20231.6applications per place 54.1Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Newham20265.1applications per place 59.0Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Waltham ForestGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 50.4Attainment 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
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 139703 · 316/4003
- Trust
- Harris Federation
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,780 pupils · 2,047 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2013
- Address
- 40 Cheering Lane, London, E20 1BD
- Local authority
- Newham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources