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Secondary school in Ruislip, Hillingdon

Ruislip High School

Sidmouth Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 0BY

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 01895464064

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 5 December 2023

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 5 December 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

54.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

59% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

82% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

43% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.62confidence interval 0.42 to 0.82

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
35.4

England average 32.3

A level students
111

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1311
Places
1300
How full
Full — 1311 pupils against 1300 places
Girls / boys
618 / 693
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
21%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
27%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
67%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
175

After sixth form

Went to university
66%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
112

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

27% 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
78%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
120

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 Hillingdon 010B, 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
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
87%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
31%

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
VANGUARD LEARNING TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Gareth Davies
Local authority
Hillingdon
Ward
Ruislip Manor
Constituency
Uxbridge and South Ruislip
URN
140748

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Queensmead SchoolAcademy converter No grade 55.5 0.9 mi
Bishop Ramsey Church of England SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56 1 mi
Pinner High SchoolFree schools No grade 57.1 1.3 mi
Rooks Heath SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 40.7 1.6 mi
Islip Manor High SchoolFoundation school No grade 38.3 1.6 mi
The Douay Martyrs Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 52.6 1.6 mi
Alec Reed AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 45.1 1.8 mi
Haydon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 46 2.1 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
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 50.4
Malcolm Arnold AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4
Barr Beacon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 51
Southfield School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2023 46.8
Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter No grade 48.1
Notre Dame High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 52.8
Caludon Castle SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.5
St Thomas More Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47

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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