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Hornchurch High School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 48 48.5 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
48.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
44.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
9.2% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.32 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 54[5] 61.4%[5]
2023/24 51.1[3] 55.2%[3] +0.32[3]
2022/23 45.5[6] 41%[6] -0.15[6]
2021/22 45.4[7] 40%[7] -0.42[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
91% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
29% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
1% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
59% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
0% 2022/23[8]
Employment
2% 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 90%[9] 21%[9] 1%[9] 64%[9] 0%[9] 4%[9]
2020/21 93%[10] 23%[10] 4%[10] 61%[10] 2%[10] 3%[10]
2019/20 88%[11] 20%[11] 0%[11] 66%[11] 0%[11] 1%[11]
2018/19 93%[12] 15%[12] 0%[12] 71%[12] 5%[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
5 Feb 2025[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
6 Apr 2025[13]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
Standards maintained[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
3 May 2023[14] S8 No Formal Designation Visit[14] No overall grade[14]
22 Jan 2019[15] S5 Inspection[15] Good[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.8 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference)
465 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences
102 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered
165 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place
0.6 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 359[16] 66[16] 109[16] 3.3[16] 0.6[16]
Entry Sept 2024 390[16] 70[16] 167[16] 2.3[16] 0.4[16]
Entry Sept 2023 411[16] 93[16] 172[16] 2.4[16] 0.5[16]
Entry Sept 2022 406[16] 63[16] 102[16] 4.0[16] 0.6[16]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy converter[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
932[1]
Trust
PARTNERSHIP LEARNING[1]
Local authority
Havering[1]
Website
www.hornchurchhigh.com[1]
District
Havering[17]
Postcode
RM12 4AJ[1]
URN
143946[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
717 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language
34% 2024/25[18]
SEN support
6.8% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan
2.7% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
32.4% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
48.4%[19]
Mixed
8.3%[19]
Asian
19.8%[19]
Black
17.7%[19]
Any other ethnic group
1.7%[19]
Unclassified
4.1%[19]

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 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  19. 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.