Riverside School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–19

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 58 57.9 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B- B- 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 57.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 63.9% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 24.6% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.78 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	55.5[6]	59.9%[6]
2023/24	54.4[4]	56.3%[4]	+0.78[4]
2022/23	55.5[7]	60%[7]	+1.07[7]
2021/22	57[8]	58%[8]	+0.98[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 17.7% 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]	7.9%[10]
2022/23	B[11]	16.9%[11]
2021/22	B[12]	10.3%[12]
2018/19	C[13]	7.3%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 95% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 45% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 15% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 33% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2021/22[15]
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	97%[15]	51%[15]	9%[15]	36%[15]	1%[15]	0%[15]
2020/21	96%[16]	50%[16]	15%[16]	30%[16]	0%[16]	0%[16]
2019/20	95%[17]	50%[17]	12%[17]	32%[17]	0%[17]	1%[17]
2018/19	98%[18]	51%[18]	12%[18]	32%[18]	3%[18]	1%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 84% 2022/23[19]
Education: 75% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 6% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 3% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	80%[20]	57%[20]	5%[20]	18%[20]
2020/21	93%[21]	90%[21]	0%[21]	3%[21]
2019/20	83%[22]	75%[22]	0%[22]	8%[22]
2018/19	90%[23]	81%[23]	0%[23]	10%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 64% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 23% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 33% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 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	95%[26]	63%[26]
2019/20	88%[25]	35%[25]	33%[25]	0%[25]
2018/19	90%[27]	29%[27]	29%[27]	0%[27]

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: 5 Oct 2022[28]
Type: S5 Inspection[28]
Report published: 17 Nov 2022[28]
Personal development: Outstanding[28]
Quality of education: Outstanding[28]
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding[28]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[28]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[28]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[28]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[28]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
24 Jan 2019[29]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[29]	No overall grade[29]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 1.9 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Applications (any preference): 558 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences: 219 Entry Sept 2026[30]
Places offered: 294 Entry Sept 2026[30]
First preferences per place: 0.7 Entry Sept 2026[30]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	526[30]	239[30]	273[30]	1.9[30]	0.9[30]
Entry Sept 2024	600[30]	266[30]	299[30]	2.0[30]	0.9[30]
Entry Sept 2023	448[30]	191[30]	228[30]	2.0[30]	0.8[30]
Entry Sept 2022	516[30]	217[30]	260[30]	2.0[30]	0.8[30]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 11–19[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1824[1]
Trust: PARTNERSHIP LEARNING[1]
Local authority: Barking and Dagenham[1]
Website: https://riverside-secondary.com/[1]
District: Barking and Dagenham [31]
Postcode: IG11 0FU[1]
URN: 139791[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1542 2024/25[32]
English as an additional language: 29.4% 2024/25[32]
SEN support: 3.7% 2024/25[32]
EHC plan: 0.8% 2024/25[32]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 33.9% 2024/25[32]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 15.9%[33]
Mixed: 8%[33]
Asian: 29.4%[33]
Black: 42.8%[33]
Any other ethnic group: 1.2%[33]
Unclassified: 2.8%[33]

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.

Sources

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