Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 49 48.7 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B B 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 48.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 52.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 14.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.02 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	49.7[6]	50.7%[6]
2023/24	48.6[4]	46.7%[4]	+0.02[4]
2022/23	49.6[7]	50%[7]	+0.11[7]
2021/22	52.3[8]	51%[8]	+0.23[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 21.6% 2024/25[3]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	C+[10]	8.1%[10]
2022/23	C+[11]	9.3%[11]
2021/22	C+[12]	12.2%[12]
2018/19	C-[13]	5.3%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 94% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 55% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 6% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 31% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 0% 2021/22[15]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	95%[15]	57%[15]	9%[15]	27%[15]	2%[15]	0%[15]
2020/21	96%[16]	71%[16]	6%[16]	18%[16]		0%[16]
2019/20	98%[17]	67%[17]	9%[17]	21%[17]
2018/19	94%[18]	58%[18]	7%[18]	25%[18]	2%[18]	2%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 84% 2022/23[19]
UK higher education: 56% 2022/23[19]
Education: 60% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 11% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 13% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	84%[20]	60%[20]	65%[20]	2%[20]	17%[20]
2020/21	85%[21]	65%[21]	70%[21]	6%[21]	9%[21]
2019/20	82%[22]	61%[22]	65%[22]	4%[22]	13%[22]
2018/19	86%[23]	61%[23]	66%[23]	5%[23]	14%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 75% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 18% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 22% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2018/19[26]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	73%[27]	25%[27]
2019/20	74%[25]	23%[25]	22%[25]
2018/19	72%[26]	13%[26]	12%[26]	0%[26]
2017/18	76%[28]	18%[28]	17%[28]	0%[28]

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.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 31 Jan 2024[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 4 Mar 2024[29]
Personal development: Outstanding[29]
Quality of education: Outstanding[29]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[29]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[29]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
6 Dec 2022[30]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[30]	No overall grade[30]
29 Mar 2017[31]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[31]	No overall grade[31]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.1 Entry Sept 2026[32]
Applications (any preference): 1097 Entry Sept 2026[32]
First preferences: 423 Entry Sept 2026[32]
Places offered: 359 Entry Sept 2026[32]
First preferences per place: 1.2 Entry Sept 2026[32]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	1039[32]	372[32]	357[32]	2.9[32]	1.0[32]
Entry Sept 2024	1029[32]	342[32]	357[32]	2.9[32]	1.0[32]
Entry Sept 2023	950[32]	320[32]	360[32]	2.6[32]	0.9[32]
Entry Sept 2022	1001[32]	306[32]	355[32]	2.8[32]	0.9[32]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 2420[1]
Local authority: Barking and Dagenham[1]
Website: http://www.barkingabbeyschool.co.uk/[1]
District: Barking and Dagenham [33]
Postcode: IG11 9AG[1]
URN: 101241[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 2336 2024/25[34]
English as an additional language: 28% 2024/25[34]
SEN support: 7.4% 2024/25[34]
EHC plan: 4.3% 2024/25[34]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 30.8% 2024/25[34]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 17.9%[35]
Mixed: 7.4%[35]
Asian: 54.1%[35]
Black: 17.5%[35]
Any other ethnic group: 2.2%[35]
Unclassified: 1%[35]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

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