The Sydney Russell School
All-through · Dagenham · RM9 5QT
Data updated
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 12 May 2026 · report published 18 June 2026
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2,568 pupils · 96% of 2,670 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 27.2% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 32.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 11% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 2.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 141683
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 361 families named it first for 357 Year 7 places, 1.01 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2026 entry went to 1.363 km (≈0.85 mi); distance decided places in 11 of the 13 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2011 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 12 May 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Strong standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.92 first-choice applications per place76 places offered · 70 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.01 first-choice applications per place357 places offered · 361 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2022 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.4781 km (≈0.92 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 1.363 km (≈0.85 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Dagenham school admissions · Barking and Dagenham school admissions
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
90 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
341 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.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Provision type: Resourced provision.
- Resourced provision
- 8 of 8 places taken full, or over capacity
Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 22% (Barking and Dagenham 16%, England 59%) · Any other White background 16% (Barking and Dagenham 12%, England 7%) · Asian Bangladeshi 13% (Barking and Dagenham 13%, England 2%) · Black African 13% (Barking and Dagenham 21%, England 5%) · Asian Pakistani 11% (Barking and Dagenham 11%, England 5%) · Any other Asian background 5% (Barking and Dagenham 3%, England 3%) · Asian Indian 4% (Barking and Dagenham 5%, England 4%) · Any other Mixed background 4% (Barking and Dagenham 3%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 1%) · Not recorded 1% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 2%) · White Gypsy/Roma 1% (Barking and Dagenham 0%, England 0%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
1.52 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Barking and Dagenham: 5.95 suspensions and 0.14 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
43.6% of teachers took sickness absence, 3.5 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £58,424; 9.6% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
Spending per pupil (2024-25)
Where the money went (2024-25)
Share of spending, with the median for all-through schools in brackets: Staff 78% (78%) · premises 6% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (8%) · supplies and services 8% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (6%) · bought-in professional services 2% (1%) · catering 4% (4%)
Reserves (2024-25)
Revenue reserve £1,000; in-year balance +£1,746,000
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 12 May 2026: Strong standard
- 15 September 2021: Good
- 14 December 2017: Section 8 Inspection due to Parental Complaint
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 30.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 24.9% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 20.3% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 29.8% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 50.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 46.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 36.3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 16.8% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 5.1% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 10.9% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 6.6% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 29.5% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01000080 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £372,000348 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £341,000–£405,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (1.36 km, 2026 entry): 746 sales, median £375,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.48 km, 2022 entry): 893 sales, median £377,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 11an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 17an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 89an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 7an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
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