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New Rush Hall School

Special schoolAges 5–16Community

Redbridge, IG6 2LB · Redbridge local authority

Redbridge’s School Grade A+ better than 96% of towns in England

How full
94 pupils
118% of its 80 places
Free school meals
72%
72 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about New Rush Hall School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 94 pupils for 80 places
  • 72% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, November 2025: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (IG6 2) sold for a median £487,500; Redbridge’s is £500,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 14 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools New Rush Hall beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 17.8

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Redbridge avg 55.7

20304050607080England avg 47.3New Rush Hall 17.8

Grade 5+ in English and maths 7%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Redbridge avg 63%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%New Rush Hall 7%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
24.2
2024/25
13.7
2025/26
17.8

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

+0.06: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths7%
England’s schools 66% · Redbridge 78% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

91 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
3.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
93.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
7.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
72.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 4%Boys 96%
Its letter

No letter for New Rush Hall School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting November 2025.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionExceptional
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingExceptional
Leadership and governanceStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near New Rush Hall School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in IG6 2, the school’s postcode sector

Redbridge property prices →
£487,500
median sale, 289 sales in 36 months · Redbridge £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025IG6 2Redbridge
IG6 2Redbridge

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£693K
Semi-detached
£545K
Terraced
£496K
Flat
£315K
IG6 2Redbridge

Homes in IG6 2 sell for about the same as Redbridge’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+AB+AA−B−ABB−CA−C+A+B+C−A−A−AAA−C−ANew Rush Hall School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Redbridge, IG6 2LB

New Rush Hall School: common questions

What is New Rush Hall School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (November 2025) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near New Rush Hall School?

Homes in its postcode sector, IG6 2, sold for a median £487,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (289 sales).

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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Redbridge’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.