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The Royal Liberty School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 56 55.8 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
55.8 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
73.6% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
25.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.47 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 51[5] 64.6%[5]
2023/24 51.1[3] 64.6%[3] +0.47[3]
2022/23 47[6] 52%[6] -0.03[6]
2021/22 51[7] 55%[7] -0.18[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
90% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
27% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
1% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
54% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
1% 2022/23[8]
Employment
1% 2022/23[8]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 96%[9] 25%[9] 0%[9] 66%[9] 2%[9] 0%[9]
2020/21 94%[10] 30%[10] 1%[10] 57%[10] 3%[10] 1%[10]
2019/20 93%[11] 36%[11] 0%[11] 53%[11] 0%[11] 1%[11]
2018/19 91%[12] 33%[12] 0%[12] 54%[12] 1%[12] 2%[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
7 Feb 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
19 Mar 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
5 Feb 2019[14] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14] No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
3.5 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference)
525 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences
186 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered
148 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place
1.3 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 508[15] 187[15] 143[15] 3.6[15] 1.3[15]
Entry Sept 2024 467[15] 172[15] 142[15] 3.3[15] 1.2[15]
Entry Sept 2023 444[15] 177[15] 143[15] 3.1[15] 1.2[15]
Entry Sept 2022 389[15] 127[15] 148[15] 2.6[15] 0.9[15]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Boys[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
750[1]
Trust
SFAET LTD[1]
Local authority
Havering[1]
Website
http://www.royalliberty.co.uk[1]
District
Havering[16]
Postcode
RM2 6HJ[1]
URN
143877[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
738 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language
23.3% 2024/25[17]
SEN support
10.6% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan
4.1% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
19.1% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
60.9%[18]
Mixed
6.8%[18]
Asian
20.6%[18]
Black
6.5%[18]
Any other ethnic group
2.4%[18]
Unclassified
2.8%[18]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  18. 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.