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All-through school in Northolt, Ealing

Alec Reed Academy

Bengarth Road, Northolt, Middlesex, UB5 5LQ

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 02088414511

Ofsted

Goodas at 20 June 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 20 June 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

45.1 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

40% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

59% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

38% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.24confidence interval 0.01 to 0.47

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
25.4

England average 32.3

A level students
76

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1639
Places
1895
How full
86% full — 1639 of 1895 places taken
Girls / boys
772 / 867
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
27%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
44%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
59%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
52%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
168

After sixth form

Went to university
59%

England 50%

In education, work or training
79%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
85

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
76%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
75

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Ealing 008C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
32%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
25%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
39%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
34%

England 17%

Households with no car
33%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 3–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE ALEC REED ACADEMY
Headteacher
Principal: Phil Cosby
Local authority
Ealing
Ward
Northolt West End
Constituency
Ealing North
URN
134369

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Islip Manor High SchoolFoundation school No grade 38.3 0.7 mi
Greenford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.6 1 mi
Queensmead SchoolAcademy converter No grade 55.5 1 mi
Barnhill Community High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 53.1 1.1 mi
Rooks Heath SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 40.7 1.4 mi
William Perkin Church of England High SchoolFree schools No grade 62.5 1.5 mi
The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2024 58.4 1.8 mi
Ruislip High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 54.1 1.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Barnsley AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 45.1
Discovery AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 37.4
Halewood AcademyAcademy converter No grade 41.6
Reddish Vale High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Inadequate 2024 37.7
Pakefield High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 38.4
Cecil Jones AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 35.1
Cowley International CollegeCommunity school No grade 39.3
The Barlow RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2024 49.8

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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