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All-through school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham

Robert Clack School

Gosfield Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 1JU

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 02082704200

Ofsted

Goodas at 22 November 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 22 November 2023.

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

50.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

50% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

72% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

8% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.16confidence interval 0.00 to 0.31

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
35.9

England average 32.3

A level students
120

Pupils

Pupils on roll
3231
Places
2500
How full
Full — 3231 pupils against 2500 places
Girls / boys
1541 / 1690
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
22%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
32%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
25%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
58%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
338

After sixth form

Went to university
66%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
191

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

19% 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
77%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
225

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 Barking and Dagenham 006C, 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
31%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
22%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
67%

England 17%

Households with no car
51%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
38%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 3–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: R V A Taylor
Local authority
Barking and Dagenham
Ward
Heath
Constituency
Dagenham and Rainham
URN
101245

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
All Saints Catholic School and Technology CollegeVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2024 56.1 0.1 mi
St Edward's Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.1 0.7 mi
Eastbrook SchoolCommunity school No grade 37.2 0.9 mi
The Warren SchoolAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2024 47.6 1.1 mi
Brook Sixth Form and AcademyUniversity technical college No grade 38.7 1.2 mi
The Sydney Russell SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.2 1.3 mi
Mayfield SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 45 1.4 mi
Chadwell Heath AcademyAcademy converter No grade 53.7 1.7 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
Alder Community High SchoolCommunity school Requires improvement 2024 46.6
Cornwallis AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 38.6
The Compton SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 54.8
Bexhill High AcademyAcademy converter No grade 41.7
Co-op Academy WalkdenAcademy converter Good 2023 43.6
Hartshill AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 41
Alderwood SchoolCommunity school No grade 42.2
Marriotts SchoolCommunity school No grade 42.4

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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