Sarah Bonnell School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 51.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 51.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 54.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 21.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.46 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	56.7[5]	62%[5]
2023/24	56.4[3]	66.5%[3]	+0.46[3]
2022/23	54.5[6]	56%[6]	+0.52[6]
2021/22	57.1[7]	62%[7]	+0.51[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 96% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 50% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 34% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 10% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 0% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Employment
2021/22	95%[9]	58%[9]	25%[9]	11%[9]	1%[9]
2020/21	96%[10]	44%[10]	37%[10]	10%[10]	1%[10]
2019/20	97%[11]	39%[11]	45%[11]	10%[11]
2018/19	95%[12]	49%[12]	34%[12]	10%[12]

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: 2 Nov 2022[13]
Type: S5 Inspection[13]
Report published: 13 Dec 2022[13]
Personal development: Outstanding[13]
Quality of education: Good[13]
Overall effectiveness: Good[13]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[13]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.0 Entry Sept 2026[14]
Applications (any preference): 529 Entry Sept 2026[14]
First preferences: 139 Entry Sept 2026[14]
Places offered: 174 Entry Sept 2026[14]
First preferences per place: 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[14]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	640[14]	163[14]	231[14]	2.8[14]	0.7[14]
Entry Sept 2024	619[14]	165[14]	235[14]	2.6[14]	0.7[14]
Entry Sept 2023	698[14]	168[14]	266[14]	2.6[14]	0.6[14]
Entry Sept 2022	742[14]	169[14]	269[14]	2.8[14]	0.6[14]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Girls[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Capacity: 1350[1]
Trust: NEWHAM COMMUNITY LEARNING[1]
Local authority: Newham[1]
Website: https://sarahbonnell.ncltrust.net/[1]
District: Newham [15]
Postcode: E15 4LP[1]
URN: 142644[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1275 2024/25[16]
English as an additional language: 54.3% 2024/25[16]
SEN support: 5.1% 2024/25[16]
EHC plan: 2.9% 2024/25[16]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 56.4% 2024/25[16]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 9.9%[17]
Mixed: 7.2%[17]
Asian: 59.1%[17]
Black: 14.9%[17]
Any other ethnic group: 7.8%[17]
Unclassified: 1.1%[17]

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

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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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 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: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.