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Secondary school in Richmond, Richmond upon Thames

Grey Court School

Ham Street, Ham, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7HN

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 02089481173

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 9 February 2024

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 9 February 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

62.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

79% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

90% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

68% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.85confidence interval 0.66 to 1.03

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well 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
B
Average points per entry
39.4

England average 32.3

A level students
163

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1650
Places
1398
How full
Full — 1650 pupils against 1398 places
Girls / boys
722 / 928
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
8%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
13%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
21%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
65%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
235

After sixth form

Went to university
53%

England 50%

In education, work or training
81%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
151

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

48% 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
90%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
146

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 Richmond upon Thames 012D, 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
55%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
63%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
27%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
EVERY CHILD, EVERY DAY ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Christopher Rhodes
Local authority
Richmond upon Thames
Ward
Ham, Petersham & Richmond Riverside
Constituency
Richmond Park
URN
138825

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The German SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
Orleans Park SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 64.4 0.8 mi
St Catherine's SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.9 mi
Radnor HouseOther independent school No grade 0.9 mi
The Tiffin Girls' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 85.3 1 mi
Teddington SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.5 1.1 mi
St Richard Reynolds Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 61.8 1.1 mi
The Kingston AcademyFree schools Outstanding 2024 62.8 1.1 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary 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
Manchester Mesivta SchoolVoluntary aided school Requires improvement 2024 39.3
Highdown School and Sixth Form CentreAcademy converter Good 2024 50.4
Rainham Mark Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 62.7
Freman CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 53.1
Lawrence Sheriff SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 75.1
Walton High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.6
Carre's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 58
The Westgate SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2023 59.8

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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