Jo Richardson Community School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 47 47.4 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B- B- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 47.4 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 44.6% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 12.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.20 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	50.2[6]	48.5%[6]
2023/24	47.2[4]	50%[4]	+0.20[4]
2022/23	48.6[7]	47%[7]	+0.26[7]
2021/22	47.9[8]	48%[8]	-0.07[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 6.2% 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	B-[10]	8.5%[10]
2022/23	B-[11]	9.1%[11]
2021/22	B-[12]	5.6%[12]
2018/19	C+[13]	6.4%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 45% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 5% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 39% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 1% 2022/23[14]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	94%[15]	39%[15]	4%[15]	45%[15]	2%[15]	3%[15]
2020/21	96%[16]	47%[16]	5%[16]	40%[16]	1%[16]	2%[16]
2019/20	91%[17]	45%[17]	3%[17]	38%[17]	1%[17]	2%[17]
2018/19	93%[18]	40%[18]	1%[18]	45%[18]	4%[18]	2%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 90% 2022/23[19]
UK higher education: 76% 2022/23[19]
Education: 76% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 10% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	92%[20]	75%[20]	76%[20]	4%[20]	12%[20]
2020/21	89%[21]	79%[21]	79%[21]	3%[21]	7%[21]
2019/20	87%[22]	70%[22]	76%[22]	3%[22]	9%[22]
2018/19	84%[23]	67%[23]	69%[23]	3%[23]	13%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 84% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 25% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 23% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 1% 2019/20[25]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	87%[26]	31%[26]
2019/20	79%[25]	25%[25]	23%[25]	1%[25]
2018/19	79%[27]	19%[27]	18%[27]	0%[27]
2017/18	87%[28]	18%[28]	19%[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: 8 May 2024[29]
Type: S5 Inspection[29]
Report published: 20 Jun 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
24 Jan 2023[30]	Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[30]	No overall grade[30]
21 Nov 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: 2.9 Entry Sept 2026[32]
Applications (any preference): 864 Entry Sept 2026[32]
First preferences: 296 Entry Sept 2026[32]
Places offered: 299 Entry Sept 2026[32]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[32]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	871[32]	346[32]	298[32]	2.9[32]	1.2[32]
Entry Sept 2024	881[32]	347[32]	300[32]	2.9[32]	1.2[32]
Entry Sept 2023	910[32]	314[32]	300[32]	3.0[32]	1.0[32]
Entry Sept 2022	981[32]	335[32]	301[32]	3.3[32]	1.1[32]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1700[1]
Local authority: Barking and Dagenham[1]
Website: http://jorichardson.org.uk/[1]
District: Barking and Dagenham [33]
Postcode: RM9 4UN[1]
URN: 133561[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1686 2024/25[34]
English as an additional language: 22.6% 2024/25[34]
SEN support: 9.1% 2024/25[34]
EHC plan: 3.3% 2024/25[34]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 38.6% 2024/25[34]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 46.8%[35]
Mixed: 13.4%[35]
Asian: 16.3%[35]
Black: 19.7%[35]
Any other ethnic group: 1.9%[35]
Unclassified: 1.9%[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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