Graded inspection · Oct 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 | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry559 applications · 124 places offered · 114 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 4.5; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.6
- 2025 3.6; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2024 4.0; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2023 3.2; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2022 4.1; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.5
- 2021 3.7; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.7
- 2020 5.3; Barking and Dagenham median median 2.8
- 2019 5.3; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2018 3.6; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2017 4.1; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.4
- 2016 4.1; Barking and Dagenham median median 3.3
- This school
- Barking and Dagenham median
Reception entry, September 2026: 2.5 per place (125 applications for 51 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 | 124 | 559 | 4.5 | 114 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 105 | 378 | 3.6 | 58 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2024 | 113 | 451 | 4.0 | 61 | 0.54 |
| Sep 2023 | 117 | 379 | 3.2 | 69 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2022 | 94 | 385 | 4.1 | 64 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2021 | 111 | 410 | 3.7 | 66 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2020 | 78 | 413 | 5.3 | 48 | 0.62 |
| Sep 2019 | 87 | 457 | 5.3 | 61 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2018 | 120 | 427 | 3.6 | 46 | 0.38 |
| Sep 2017 | 102 | 415 | 4.1 | 51 | 0.50 |
| Sep 2016 | 118 | 479 | 4.1 | 48 | 0.41 |
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.) | 110 | 56.6 | 63% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 114 | 55.6 | 64% | 77% | – |
| 2023/24 | 111 | 53.2 | 60% | 78% | +0.87 |
| 2022/23 | 101 | 53.4 | 60% | 75% | +0.80 |
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
- Goresbrook SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20244.5applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- 0.3 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20242.9applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20221.9applications per place 57.9Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Barking and DagenhamStandards maintained20252.2applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Barking and Dagenham20263.0applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Barking and DagenhamOutstanding20243.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Barking and DagenhamRemains Good20242.6applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · Barking and Dagenham20252.9applications per place 39.6Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · Barking and DagenhamGraded · no overall grade202442.9Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 140962 · 301/4003
- Religious character
- Multi-faith
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,089 on roll
- Free school meals
- 32.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Address
- Cook Road, Dagenham, RM9 6XW
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources