Redbridge’s state schools get better results than 96% of towns in England
At Key Stage 2, 74% of pupils at Redbridge’s primaries met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, above both London’s towns (70%) and towns in England (62%). 79 state-funded schools are located in Redbridge’s built-up area. Redbridge grades A+ for schools, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results: #5 of 33 in London. Ofsted is shown, not graded.
Redbridge’s secondary results beat 91% of English towns; its primary results beat 95%. 74% of the London borough’s 11-year-olds meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% at the average school in England and 73% across Redbridge. The spread between primaries is wide: 92% at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School, 54% at St Augustine's Catholic Primary School. Every school’s result ↓
A grammar school in town
Ilford County High School admits pupils by a test at 11. Their results count in Redbridge’s School Grade, as they are state schools many local children attend. After 16 ↓
Ark Isaac Newton beats its intake
Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually get lower results. At Ark Isaac Newton Academy, 34% of pupils are on free school meals and 88% meet the expected standard; a typical school in England with that intake reaches 59%. Results and intake ↓
Written from the Department for Education and Ofsted data on this page.
School Grade
Redbridge grades A+ for schools
Against every town in England with results; Wales publishes none.
Primary: reading, writing and maths at 11 (74% meet the standard)Better than 95% of towns in England
Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths (54.3 and 61%)Better than 91% of towns in England
Each of Redbridge’s 53 primaries: % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (2023–25)
Each of Redbridge’s 18 secondaries: Attainment 8 (2025/26)
England’s average schoolRedbridge’s average school
The primary figure: 54 primaries in the town, 12,303 pupils in results over three years. The secondary figure: 18 secondaries in the town, 3,712 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 Redbridge’s 79 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 Redbridge’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 5% at Avanti Court Primary School to 43% at Woodlands Primary School. Against schools with the same intake, Ark Isaac Newton Academy does best: 88% with 34% on free school meals, where a typical school would reach 59%. 49 of 53 primaries and 16 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 Redbridge
Redbridge Council handles applications for every state school in Redbridge, 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. 16 of Redbridge’s 71 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%; 14 schools are at or over it.
Ilford County High131%
Oakdale Infants' incl. nursery111%
Barley Lane incl. nursery109%
Wells incl. nursery108%
Fairlop incl. nursery108%
Highlands incl. nursery107%
Ray Lodge107%
Valentines High105%
St Antony's incl. nursery104%
Coppice incl. nursery103%
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Grove incl. nursery102%
Trinity102%
Al-Noor Voluntary Aided Muslim100%
Our Lady of Lourdes incl. nursery100%
John Bramston incl. nursery100%
Churchfields Junior99%
Oakdale Junior99%
Woodbridge High99%
Chadwell incl. nursery99%
Redbridge99%
Ark Isaac Newton99%
Aldersbrook incl. nursery99%
Chadwell Heath98%
The Ursuline Academy Ilford98%
Seven Kings98%
Gearies incl. nursery98%
Oaks Park High97%
Fullwood incl. nursery97%
Nightingale incl. nursery96%
The Palmer96%
Wanstead High96%
Mossford Green incl. nursery96%
Cleveland Road incl. nursery95%
Churchfields Infants'95%
Goodmayes incl. nursery94%
Christchurch incl. nursery94%
Snaresbrook incl. nursery94%
Parkhill Infants' incl. nursery93%
Loxford incl. nursery93%
Mayfield92%
Parkhill Junior92%
Beal High92%
Roding incl. nursery91%
Glade incl. nursery91%
Winston Way incl. nursery91%
St Bede's incl. nursery90%
St Augustine's incl. nursery90%
Woodford Green incl. nursery90%
Avanti Court incl. nursery88%
Atam incl. nursery87%
Gordon incl. nursery84%
Wanstead Church incl. nursery84%
Manford incl. nursery84%
Woodlands incl. nursery83%
Cranbrook83%
Aldborough83%
South Park incl. nursery82%
Mayespark incl. nursery81%
Caterham High81%
SS Peter and Paul's80%
Gilbert Colvin incl. nursery80%
Forest80%
Newbury Park incl. nursery80%
Downshall incl. nursery80%
William Torbitt incl. nursery79%
Uphall incl. nursery75%
Clore Tikva incl. nursery70%
Wohl Ilford Jewish incl. nursery69%
King Solomon High55%
Farnham Green incl. nursery51%
St Aidan's incl. nursery51%
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
79 state schools in Redbridge
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 Redbridge’s schoolsA44B16C8D011 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 4Good 24Report card 13Requires improvement 2Ungraded inspection only 36
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. 13 of Redbridge’s 79 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
Good Shepherd Catholic TrustThe Palmer, Our Lady of Lourdes, SS Peter and Paul's, St Aidan's
4
2,133
BA+A−C+
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust LimitedBeal High, Forest, Beacon Business Innovation Hub
3
3,399
A−C−
Loxford School Trust LimitedLoxford, Aldborough
2
3,146
A−A
Strive4 Academy TrustRay Lodge, Farnham Green
2
1,024
B+A
Astrum Multi Academy TrustNewbridge, Hatchside
2
300
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Ark SchoolsArk Isaac Newton
1
1,777
A
Chadwell Heath AcademyChadwell Heath
1
1,229
A−
One Multi Academies Trust LimitedAtam
1
1,083
A−
Ursuline Academy IlfordThe Ursuline Academy Ilford
1
743
A−
United Learning TrustWinston Way
1
616
C
Avanti Schools TrustAvanti Court
1
598
A
New Vision TrustDownshall
1
501
A−
Arbor Academy TrustWoodford Green
1
242
A+
Redbridge CouncilSeven Kings, Woodbridge High, Mayfield, Oaks Park High, Trinity, Wanstead High, Valentines High, Ilford County High, Christchurch, Caterham High, Cleveland Road, Gearies, Uphall, Barley Lane, Redbridge, Cranbrook, Newbury Park, Nightingale, Fairlop, Highlands, Chadwell, Aldersbrook, Grove, Goodmayes, King Solomon High, South Park, Woodlands, Mayespark, William Torbitt, Churchfields Junior, Snaresbrook, Manford, Fullwood, Mossford Green, Parkhill Junior, John Bramston, Roding, St Antony's, Coppice, Churchfields Infants', Glade, St Bede's, Al-Noor Voluntary Aided Muslim, St Augustine's, Gordon, Parkhill Infants', Oakdale Junior, Gilbert Colvin, Wells, Oakdale Infants', Clore Tikva, Little Heath, Wohl Ilford Jewish, Hatton Special, Wanstead Church, New Rush Hall, The Constance Bridgeman Centre, Redbridge Alternative Provision
In England young people stay in education or training until 18: a sixth form, a college, or an apprenticeship.
16 of Redbridge’s 18 state secondaries have sixth forms: Ark Isaac Newton, Beal High, Caterham High, Chadwell Heath, Ilford County High, King Solomon High, Loxford, Mayfield, Oaks Park High, Seven Kings, The Palmer, The Ursuline Academy Ilford, Trinity, Valentines High, Wanstead High and Woodbridge High. The nearest college is Leyton Sixth Form College, a further-education college 3.3 miles away.
Sir George Monoux CollegeFurther-education college · E17 5AA
3.9 mi
Special needs
Special schools and alternative provision in Redbridge
Redbridge has 5 special schools (Hatchside, Hatton Special, Little Heath, New Rush Hall and Newbridge: 855 pupils) and 3 alternative provision schools, 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), Redbridge 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 ↑
Redbridge Council’s SEND Local Offer lists support beyond these schools.
Towns its size
2nd of 38 English towns and cities of 217,000 to 418,000
Ranked by School Grade, best first: the towns and cities either side of Redbridge, and the top and bottom of the group.
Redbridge’s schools are graded at least as well as any neighbour’s. 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 Redbridge: 16% (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 Redbridge
Are schools in Redbridge good?
Redbridge’s state schools earn an A+ against schools across England: primary results beat 95% of towns in England; secondary results beat 91% of towns in England, on Department for Education Key Stage 2 and GCSE results. School places are handled by Redbridge council.
What is the best secondary school in Redbridge?
On 2025/26 GCSE results, Ilford County High School: Attainment 8 of 77 and 99% 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 Redbridge?
On Key Stage 2 results over 2023–25, Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School: 92% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% at the average school in England.
Do Redbridge secondary schools have sixth forms?
16 of 18 do.
How do I apply for a school place in Redbridge?
Through Redbridge 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 Redbridge are full?
14 of 71 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 Redbridge?
79 open state-funded schools are located in Redbridge’s built-up area: 57 primary, 18 secondary and 4 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.
