Goresbrook School

📍 Cook Road, Barking and Dagenham, Essex, RM9 6XW

About this school

Goresbrook School is a Free schools serving all-through age pupils, located in Barking and Dagenham, Essex. The school has 1,036 pupils enrolled. It was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 15 October 2024. The Headteacher is Megan Harris. The school is administered by Barking and Dagenham local authority. It belongs to UNITED LEARNING TRUST. The school has a Multi-faith religious character. It opened in 1 September 2014.

School details

Head

Megan Harris

Trust

UNITED LEARNING TRUST

Local authority

Barking and Dagenham

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Multi-faith

URN

140962

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Goresbrook School are handled by the school or the local authority (Barking and Dagenham). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

SATs Performance (Key Stage 2)

• The expected standard means pupils reached the level the Department for Education expects in reading, writing and maths combined by the end of primary school.
• The higher standard means pupils achieved a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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