Riverston School[1]
Independent · ages 1–21
Headline results
No headline results are published for this school in the latest two years.
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 14.9 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 6.3% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 3.1% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 19.9[4] | 13.3%[4] | |
| 2023/24 | 16.3[5] | 8%[5] | |
| 2022/23 | 13.4[6] | 5%[6] | |
| 2021/22 | 14.4[7] | 5%[7] |
A level (16–18)
- A-level average grade
- E 2022/23[8]
- AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
- 0% 2022/23[8]
Destinations after 16–18 study
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 61.5% 2022/23[9]
- UK higher education
- 15.4% 2022/23[9]
- Education
- 61.5% 2022/23[9]
- Apprenticeship
- 0% 2022/23[9]
- Employment
- 0% 2022/23[9]
| Left in | Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment | UK higher education | Education | Apprenticeship | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 62.5%[9] | 37.5%[9] | 62.5%[9] | 0%[9] | 0%[9] |
Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.
For independent schools the DfE publishes destinations after 16–18 study only: no destinations after GCSEs and no university progression figures (top third, Russell Group, Oxbridge).
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[10]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- September 2025[11]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[11]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[11]
- Quality of education
- Significant strength[11]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[11]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[11]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[11]
Leadership and governance
- ISI recommended: The school should improve communication to increase parents’ confidence and satisfaction with the school.
Quality of education
- ISI found (September 2025): The school has very high expectations and a strong focus on meeting individual needs, leading to good progress for all pupils.
Previous ISI inspections: 2022, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014 (2022 report, 2018 report, 2016 report, 2015 report, 2014 report).
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 1–21[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- Yes[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 326[1]
- Local authority
- Greenwich[1]
- Website
- www.riverstonschool.co.uk[1]
- Nursery classes
- No Nursery Classes[10]
- Special classes
- No Special Classes[10]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[10]
- District
- Greenwich[12]
- Postcode
- SE12 8UF[1]
- URN
- 100200[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 205 2024/25[13]
- SEN support
- 1.5% 2024/25[13]
- EHC plan
- 76.6% 2024/25[13]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[13]
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS5 (16-18) final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: 16-18 destination measures: 16-19 study leavers institution level destinations. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, Riverston School, September 2025. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.