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Secondary school in London, Richmond upon Thames

St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School

Clifden Road, Twickenham, London, TW1 4LT

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 02083254630

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 7 February 2024

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 7 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

61.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

73% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

89% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

49% 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 better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.66confidence interval 0.43 to 0.89

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

England average 32.3

A level students
114

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1175
Places
1097
How full
Full — 1175 pupils against 1097 places
Girls / boys
535 / 640
Overall absence
5%

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
9%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
33%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
76%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
145

After sixth form

Went to university
60%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
113

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

42% 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
84%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
94

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 014A, 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
67%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
6%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
66%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
4%

England 17%

Households with no car
28%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
29%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ASCENSION CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Sorrel Simmons
Local authority
Richmond upon Thames
Ward
South Twickenham
Constituency
Twickenham
URN
149297

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St Catherine's SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
The Richmond upon Thames SchoolFree schools No grade 51 0.4 mi
Radnor HouseOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
Orleans Park SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 64.4 0.6 mi
Waldegrave SchoolAcademy converter No grade 67.3 0.9 mi
Grey Court SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 62.8 1.1 mi
Twickenham SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 46.5 1.3 mi
The German SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.3 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
Hutton Church of England Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 50.1
Hayesfield Girls SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 57
Tarporley High School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 55.1
St Gregory's Catholic Science CollegeAcademy converter No grade 60.6
John Ruskin SchoolCommunity school No grade 52.9
Yateley SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 47.8
Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 59.3
Maidstone Grammar School for GirlsFoundation school Outstanding 2023 66.4

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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