The Richmond upon Thames School[1]
Secondary · ages 11–16
Headline results
- Attainment 8
- A8 53 52.9 2025/26[2]
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 52.9 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 60.4% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 19.4% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8
- +0.06 2023/24[3]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[4]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[4]
| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ in English & maths | Grade 7+ in English & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 51[5] | 48.3%[5] | ||
| 2023/24 | 51.4[3] | 61%[3] | +0.06[3] | |
| 2022/23 | 47[6] | 51%[6] | -0.19[6] | |
| 2021/22 | 48.1[7] | 48%[7] | -0.45[7] |
Destinations after GCSEs
- Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
- 91% 2022/23[8]
- School sixth form
- 30% 2022/23[8]
- Sixth-form college
- 19% 2022/23[8]
- Further education college
- 40% 2022/23[8]
- Apprenticeship
- 1% 2022/23[8]
- Employment
- 1% 2022/23[8]
| Left in | Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment | School sixth form | Sixth-form college | Further education college | Apprenticeship | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 93%[9] | 30%[9] | 20%[9] | 40%[9] | 0%[9] | 2%[9] |
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
- 25 Mar 2025[10]
- Type
- Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[10]
- Report published
- 13 May 2025[10]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[10]
- Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
- Standards maintained[10]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Year 7
- Applications per place
- 3.5 Entry Sept 2026[12]
- Applications (any preference)
- 638 Entry Sept 2026[12]
- First preferences
- 70 Entry Sept 2026[12]
- Places offered
- 183 Entry Sept 2026[12]
- First preferences per place
- 0.4 Entry Sept 2026[12]
| Entry | Applications | First preferences | Places offered | Per place | First preferences per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Sept 2025 | 592[12] | 82[12] | 162[12] | 3.7[12] | 0.5[12] |
| Entry Sept 2024 | 637[12] | 82[12] | 160[12] | 4.0[12] | 0.5[12] |
| Entry Sept 2023 | 701[12] | 94[12] | 150[12] | 4.7[12] | 0.6[12] |
| Entry Sept 2022 | 796[12] | 112[12] | 146[12] | 5.5[12] | 0.8[12] |
Admissions
- Places (published admission number), 11+ entry
- 162 Entry Sept 2027[13]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 11–16[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Capacity
- 786[1]
- Trust
- THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES SCHOOL TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Richmond upon Thames[1]
- Website
- http://www.richmonduponthamesschool.org.uk[1]
- District
- Richmond upon Thames[14]
- Postcode
- TW2 7SL[1]
- URN
- 143022[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 755 2024/25[15]
- English as an additional language
- 28.7% 2024/25[15]
- SEN support
- 10.1% 2024/25[15]
- EHC plan
- 2.8% 2024/25[15]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 21.7% 2024/25[15]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 65%[16]
- Mixed
- 10.4%[16]
- Asian
- 12.4%[16]
- Black
- 3.7%[16]
- Any other ethnic group
- 4.5%[16]
- Unclassified
- 4.1%[16]
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.
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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.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2019/20. 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.
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richmonduponthamesschool.org.uk: richmonduponthamesschool.org.uk document (PDF). Period 2026-10-16.
Licence: copyright-quoted.
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The published admission number is 162 places for entry into Year 7 in September 2027. (p. 3)
- 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.