Havering’s state schools get better results than 70% of towns in England
At Key Stage 2, 64% of pupils at Havering’s primaries met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, below London’s towns (70%) but above towns in England (62%). 81 state-funded schools are located in Havering’s built-up area. Havering grades B+ for schools, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results. Ofsted is shown, not graded.
29 of 75 mainstream schools have at least as many pupils as their official capacity, including Bower Park, Drapers', Emerson Park, Hall Mead, Redden Court, Sacred Heart of Mary Girls', The Campion, The Coopers' Company and Coborn and The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls among the secondaries. A full school gives places by its admissions rules, usually by distance after siblings. Getting a place ↓
Concordia beats its intake
Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually get lower results. At Concordia Academy, 23% of pupils are on free school meals and 78% meet the expected standard; a typical school in England with that intake reaches 62%. Results and intake ↓
Written from the Department for Education and Ofsted data on this page.
School Grade
Havering grades B+ for schools
Against every town in England with results; Wales publishes none.
Primary: reading, writing and maths at 11 (64% meet the standard)Better than 65% of towns in England
Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths (48.3 and 50%)Better than 67% of towns in England
Each of Havering’s 48 primaries: % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (2023–25)
Each of Havering’s 18 secondaries: Attainment 8 (2025/26)
England’s average schoolHavering’s average school
The primary figure: 48 primaries in the town, 9,922 pupils in results over three years. The secondary figure: 18 secondaries in the town, 2,958 pupils in results. Mainstream state schools only (grammar schools included); special schools, alternative provision, nurseries and 16–19 colleges are listed below but not graded. Each school’s results are compared with every school in England, then weighted by its pupils.
Map
Where Havering’s 81 state schools are
Each school at its address, coloured by its own letter and sized by pupils. Open a school for its own page. The dashed shape is Havering’s built-up area.
PrimarySecondarySpecial, nursery, 16–19Size: pupilsABCDNo letter
Most schools give places by distance once siblings are in, so the schools nearest a home matter more than any league table.
Results and intake
Which schools do better than their intake suggests
Schools with more pupils on free school meals tend to get lower results. The dashed line is the typical school in England for each level of free school meals; the band holds the middle two-thirds. A dot above the band is doing better than schools like it.
Primaries: KS2 reading, writing and maths against free school meals
Secondaries: Attainment 8 against free school meals
The share of pupils on free school meals runs from 0% at Upminster Infant School to 47% at Drapers' Brookside Junior School. Against schools with the same intake, Nelmes Primary School does best: 88% with 6% on free school meals, where a typical school would reach 67%. 28 of 48 primaries and 8 of 18 secondaries are above the line.
Free school meals: pupils eligible now, DfE January 2026 census. The typical-school line is a straight-line fit across every graded school in England. It describes; it doesn’t grade: the School Grade uses results alone.
Getting a place
How school places work in Havering
Havering Council handles applications for every state school in Havering, academies included. You apply to the council where you live, even for a school in another area.
Secondary (starting at 11)Apply by 31 October of Year 6. Offers on 1 March.
Primary (starting in Reception)Apply by 15 January before the September your child starts. Offers on 16 April.
Moving mid-yearApply to the council for an in-year place; it tells you which schools have room.
When a school is full
Every school publishes its admissions rules. Children in care come first, then, at most schools, brothers and sisters of current pupils, then those who live nearest. 12 of Havering’s 76 mainstream schools have a religious character; some of them give priority by church attendance, so check each school’s rules. Infant classes are limited to 30 by law. If you’re refused a place, you can appeal to an independent panel.
Pupils on roll as a share of the school’s official capacity. The black tick is 100%; 29 schools are at or over it.
The Campion118%
Drapers' Brookside Infant incl. nursery110%
Langtons Infant incl. nursery109%
Hall Mead109%
Harrow Lodge109%
St Edward's incl. nursery107%
Drapers'107%
Sacred Heart of Mary Girls'106%
Emerson Park106%
Broadford incl. nursery104%
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Nelmes103%
Suttons incl. nursery103%
The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls103%
Rise Park Infant incl. nursery103%
Hacton incl. nursery103%
St Alban's102%
Hylands incl. nursery101%
The Coopers' Company and Coborn101%
Upminster Junior101%
Redden Court101%
Brady incl. nursery101%
Rainham Village incl. nursery101%
Scotts100%
Bower Park100%
Ardleigh Green Junior100%
Harold Court incl. nursery100%
La Salette100%
Langtons Junior100%
St Joseph's100%
The Royal Liberty100%
Newtons incl. nursery100%
Elm Park100%
Whybridge Junior100%
Ardleigh Green Infant100%
Whybridge Infant100%
Scargill Junior99%
Towers Junior99%
Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College99%
St Mary's99%
Scargill Infant incl. nursery98%
Upminster Infant98%
Harold Wood98%
Clockhouse incl. nursery98%
Marshalls Park98%
Benhurst98%
Drapers' Brookside Junior98%
Rise Park Junior97%
The James Oglethorpe97%
Engayne97%
The Mawney Foundation incl. nursery96%
Gidea Park96%
Mead incl. nursery95%
Squirrels Heath95%
Concordia95%
Parklands incl. nursery95%
St Patrick's94%
Towers Infant incl. nursery94%
Crowlands incl. nursery93%
R J Mitchell92%
St Ursula's incl. nursery91%
Parsonage Farm90%
St Peter's90%
Hilldene incl. nursery89%
Branfil89%
Crownfield Junior88%
Drapers' Maylands incl. nursery83%
Crownfield Infant incl. nursery82%
Oasis Academy Pinewood incl. nursery80%
Sanders Draper80%
Hornchurch High71%
St Edward's69%
The Brittons63%
Gaynes52%
Drapers' Pyrgo Priory incl. nursery50%
Park incl. nursery6%
DfE register of schools (GIAS), January 2026 census. Capacity often excludes a nursery class, so a school with a nursery can show over 100%.
The schools
81 state schools in Havering
Each school’s own letter compares its results with every state school in England of the same phase: Key Stage 2 for primaries, GCSEs for secondaries. Open a school for its results, how its letter is worked out, Ofsted and a map.
Letters of Havering’s schoolsA22B23C16D515 without a letter
Key result: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths (GCSEs, 2025/26 provisional) for secondaries; the share meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (KS2, DfE’s three-year average) for primaries. Pupils: the January 2026 school census. No letter: an infant or first school (no KS2 tests), a new school, a small cohort DfE suppresses, or a special school, nursery or college. Independent schools aren’t included.
Ofsted
Ofsted report cards
Each school’s latest inspection; report cards replace one-word judgements as schools are re-inspected.
Outstanding 7Good 18Report card 15Ungraded inspection only 38No published grade 3
Ofsted stopped giving one-word judgements in 2024. Until a school is re-inspected, its last overall judgement is its most recent single grade; a school judged years ago may have changed a lot since.
Since November 2025 Ofsted gives each area of a school one of five grades (exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention, urgent improvement) and says whether safeguarding is met, instead of one overall word. 15 of Havering’s 81 state schools have a report card so far; the others show their last inspection under the old framework. Ofsted is never part of the School Grade.
Academies are state schools run by a trust rather than the council: the trust employs the staff and can set its own curriculum and term dates. Admissions still go through the council.
Run by
Schools
Pupils
Their letters
Empower Learning Academy TrustHall Mead, Bower Park, The Brittons, Hacton, Ardleigh Green Junior, Ardleigh Green Infant
6
4,032
B+C−CA+A−
Sfaet LtdRedden Court, The Royal Liberty, Sanders Draper, Rise Park Junior, Rise Park Infant
Partnership LearningHornchurch High, Harrow Lodge, Park
3
1,141
BB
Life Education TrustThe Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls, Benhurst
2
1,791
A−B+
Loxford School Trust LimitedAbbs Cross Academy and Arts College, Gaynes
2
1,383
CA−
Harris FederationHarris Academy Rainham, Harris Rainham Sixth Form
2
1,217
B
Unity Schools PartnershipSt Edward's, The Compass
2
971
B−
Reach2 Academy TrustConcordia, Langtons Junior
2
837
AC+
Lime TrustLime Academy Forest Approach, Lime Academy Ravensbourne
2
224
—
Coopers' Company and Coborn SchoolThe Coopers' Company and Coborn
1
1,568
A
Campion SchoolThe Campion
1
1,235
A
South West Essex Community Education Trust LimitedMarshalls Park
1
1,174
B−
Emerson Park AcademyEmerson Park
1
1,020
C
Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' SchoolSacred Heart of Mary Girls'
1
848
A
Oasis Community LearningOasis Academy Pinewood
1
338
B
Olive AcademiesOA
1
32
—
Havering CouncilParklands, Mead, Clockhouse, St Edward's, Crowlands, Hylands, Broadford, The Mawney Foundation, Hilldene, Harold Wood, Squirrels Heath, Engayne, Parsonage Farm, Branfil, Suttons, Gidea Park, Newtons, Rainham Village, Nelmes, Brady, Crownfield Junior, St Ursula's, Scotts, Harold Court, St Joseph's, Elm Park, St Mary's, The James Oglethorpe, St Patrick's, St Peter's, Towers Junior, Crownfield Infant, Towers Infant, Whybridge Infant, R J Mitchell, St Alban's, La Salette, Langtons Infant
In England young people stay in education or training until 18: a sixth form, a college, or an apprenticeship.
6 of Havering’s 18 state secondaries have sixth forms: Drapers', Sacred Heart of Mary Girls', St Edward's, The Campion, The Coopers' Company and Coborn and The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls. Harris Rainham Sixth Form is a state 16–19 school in the London borough. The nearest college is Barking and Dagenham College, a further-education college 1.6 miles away.
Secondaries with a sixth form
6 of 18
state schools in Havering
Colleges within 12 miles
4
nearest: Barking and Dagenham College
Grammar schools in Havering
0
no selective state secondaries
College
Distance
Barking and Dagenham CollegeFurther-education college · RM7 0XU
Special schools and alternative provision in Havering
Havering has 3 special schools (Lime Academy Forest Approach, Lime Academy Ravensbourne and The Compass: 277 pupils) and 1 alternative provision school, for pupils who can’t attend mainstream school for a time. A special-school place isn’t applied for like a mainstream one: for a child with an education, health and care plan (EHCP), Havering Council names the school in the plan, after asking the family’s preference. These schools have no letter, because their results don’t compare with mainstream schools’. Their cards ↑
Havering Council’s SEND Local Offer lists support beyond these schools.
Towns its size
31st of 48 English towns and cities of 182,000 to 350,000
Ranked by School Grade, best first: the towns and cities either side of Havering, and the top and bottom of the group.
Redbridge has the best-graded schools nearby (A+). Small places often use the schools within 3 km, so neighbours can share schools.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Expected standard at Key Stage 2. The share of 11-year-olds who reach the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, in tests and teacher assessment at the end of primary school. We use DfE’s three-year average (2023–2025) to steady small schools.
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Higher standard. The share working at greater depth in all three. In Havering: 11% (England’s average school: 8%).
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Attainment 8. A pupil’s GCSE grades across eight subjects, with English and maths counted twice, added up. 50 is roughly a grade 5 in every subject.
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Grade 5+ in English and maths. A strong pass in both. Grade 4 is a standard pass.
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Provisional. 2025/26 GCSE figures are DfE’s first release; revised figures follow in February, usually within a point.
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Progress 8. Not shown: there is none for 2025/26, because these pupils sat no KS2 tests in 2020 (Covid).
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Free school meals. Pupils eligible for free school meals now, from the January census: the usual measure of how many pupils come from low-income homes.
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Independent schools. Not included: they publish no results comparable with state schools’.
Questions about schools in Havering
Are schools in Havering good?
Havering’s state schools earn a B+ against schools across England: primary results beat 65% of towns in England; secondary results beat 67% of towns in England, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results. School places are handled by Havering council.
What is the best secondary school in Havering?
On 2025/26 GCSE results, Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School: Attainment 8 of 59.5 and 73% with grade 5+ in English and maths, against 47.3 at the average school in England. Results are one measure; distance decides most places.
What is the best primary school in Havering?
On Key Stage 2 results over 2023–25, Nelmes Primary School: 88% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% at the average school in England.
Do Havering secondary schools have sixth forms?
6 of 18 do.
How do I apply for a school place in Havering?
Through Havering Council, for every state school including academies. Secondary applications close on 31 October (offers 1 March); primary on 15 January (offers 16 April).
How many schools in Havering are full?
29 of 75 mainstream schools have at least as many pupils as places, on DfE’s January 2026 census. A full school still admits by its rules, usually distance after siblings.
How many state schools are in Havering?
81 open state-funded schools are located in Havering’s built-up area: 58 primary, 18 secondary and 5 other (special schools, alternative provision, nurseries and 16–19). Independent schools aren’t included.
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026 · DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), further-education and sixth-form colleges · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
