Goresbrook School[1]

Secondary · All-through · ages 2–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 57 56.6 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL B- B- 2024/25[3]
KS2 reading, writing & maths: expected standard: KS2 75% 75% 2024/25[4]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 56.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 62.7% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 30% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.87 2023/24[5]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[6]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[6]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	55.6[7]	64%[7]
2023/24	53.2[5]	60.4%[5]	+0.87[5]
2022/23	53.4[8]	60%[8]	+0.80[8]
2021/22	56.7[9]	65%[9]	+0.97[9]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: B- 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 10% 2024/25[3]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2023/24	B-[10]	16.2%[10]
2022/23	C+[11]	5.4%[11]

Primary (key stage 2)

Expected standard (reading, writing & maths): 75% 2024/25[4]
Higher standard (reading, writing & maths): 4% 2024/25[4]
Reading, average scaled score: 105 2024/25[4]
Maths, average scaled score: 105 2024/25[4]

Earlier years
Year	Expected standard (reading, writing & maths)	Higher standard (reading, writing & maths)	Reading, average scaled score	Maths, average scaled score
2023/24	48%[12]	5%[12]	103[12]	103[12]
2022/23	47%[13]	1%[13]	104[13]	103[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 49% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 6% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 35% 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	91%[15]	54%[15]	5%[15]	30%[15]	0%[15]	2%[15]
2020/21	93%[16]	56%[16]	6%[16]	27%[16]	2%[16]	2%[16]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 93% 2022/23[17]
Education: 91% 2022/23[17]
Apprenticeship: 0% 2022/23[17]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[17]

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: 15 Oct 2024[18]
Type: S5 Inspection[18]
Report published: 26 Nov 2024[18]
Personal development: Outstanding[18]
Quality of education: Outstanding[18]
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding[18]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[18]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Outstanding[18]
Early years provision (where applicable): Outstanding[18]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Outstanding[18]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
12 Jun 2019[19]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[19]	Good[19]
16 May 2017[20]	S5 Inspection[20]	Requires improvement[20]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 4.5 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Applications (any preference): 559 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences: 114 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Places offered: 124 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[21]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	378[21]	58[21]	105[21]	3.6[21]	0.6[21]
Entry Sept 2024	451[21]	61[21]	113[21]	4.0[21]	0.5[21]
Entry Sept 2023	379[21]	69[21]	117[21]	3.2[21]	0.6[21]
Entry Sept 2022	385[21]	64[21]	94[21]	4.1[21]	0.7[21]

Applications and offers, Reception

Applications per place: 2.5 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Applications (any preference): 125 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences: 47 Entry Sept 2026[21]
Places offered: 51 Entry Sept 2026[21]
First preferences per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[21]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	90[21]	29[21]	29[21]	3.1[21]	1.0[21]
Entry Sept 2024	95[21]	35[21]	36[21]	2.6[21]	1.0[21]
Entry Sept 2023	103[21]	30[21]	30[21]	3.4[21]	1.0[21]
Entry Sept 2022	107[21]	32[21]	36[21]	3.0[21]	0.9[21]

Character & practicalities

Type: Free schools[1]
Ages: 2–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Faith: Multi-faith[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Capacity: 1500[1]
Trust: UNITED LEARNING TRUST[1]
Local authority: Barking and Dagenham[1]
Website: www.goresbrookschool.org.uk [1]
District: Barking and Dagenham [22]
Postcode: RM9 6XW[1]
URN: 140962[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1036 2024/25[23]
English as an additional language: 51.1% 2024/25[23]
SEN support: 10.8% 2024/25[23]
EHC plan: 1.4% 2024/25[23]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 33% 2024/25[23]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 24.1%[24]
Mixed: 9.6%[24]
Asian: 26.3%[24]
Black: 36.3%[24]
Any other ethnic group: 2.5%[24]
Unclassified: 1.4%[24]

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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