Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College
Secondary · Hornchurch · RM12 4YB
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 14 December 2022
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882 pupils · 99% of 888 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 26.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 20.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 36.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2% of pupils
- Website
- http://www.abbscross.net
- URN
- 136663
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.80 first-choice applications per place168 places offered · 135 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 3.948 km (≈2.45 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
175 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 11% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 December 2022: School remains Good
- 19 September 2017: Good
- 23 May 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 21 February 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 13 September 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 22 March 2016: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 15 December 2015: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.