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Riversides School

Special schoolAges 7–16Academy

Worcester, WR1 3HZ · Worcestershire local authority

Worcester’s School Grade B better than 59% of towns in England

How full
73 pupils
107% of its 68 places
Free school meals
74%
74 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Riversides School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 73 pupils for 68 places
  • 74% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (WR1 3) sold for a median £291,500; Worcester’s is £256,500

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 10 pupils

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

Attainment 8 12.5

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Worcestershire avg 44.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Riversides 12.5

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Worcestershire avg 41%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Riversides 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
11.1
2024/25
13.9
2025/26
12.5

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.86: 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 maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Worcestershire 63% · 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

69 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
78.3%England 26.2%
Its letter

No letter for Riversides 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 January 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Riversides School

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

Home prices in WR1 3, the school’s postcode sector

Worcester property prices →
£291,500
median sale, 142 sales in 36 months · Worcester £256,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025WR1 3Worcester
WR1 3Worcester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£577K
Semi-detached
£335K
Terraced
£295K
Flat
£140K
WR1 3Worcester

Homes in WR1 3 sell for a little over Worcester’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

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAB−DBB−CB+B−A−C+DDC+CB+B−Riversides School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Worcester, WR1 3HZ

Riversides School: common questions

What is Riversides School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Riversides School?

Homes in its postcode sector, WR1 3, sold for a median £291,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (142 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; Worcester’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.

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