Free school · Barking and Dagenham
Goresbrook School
- All-through
- Ages 2–18
- Multi-faith
- Sixth form
Term dates
Free schools can set their own term dates. Many follow Barking and Dagenham council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: as a Multi-faith school, it may give priority to children of that faith, then usually by distance. Check its admissions policy.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 114 families put this school as their first choice, and 124 places were offered. 74 of the families who put it first got a place (65%).
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 124 | 114 | 65% |
| September 2025 | 105 | 58 | 100% |
| September 2024 | 113 | 61 | 97% |
How many families applied: Reception
For September 2026, 47 families put this school as their first choice, and 51 places were offered. 47 of the families who put it first got a place (100%).
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 51 | 47 | 100% |
| September 2025 | 29 | 29 | 100% |
| September 2024 | 36 | 35 | 100% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
Before and after school
No club is registered with Ofsted at this school's address. Ask the school about breakfast or after-school care, or find clubs nearby.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 15 October 2024. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Early years
- Outstanding
- Sixth form
- Outstanding
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Free school
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 2–18
- Pupils
- 1089 (capacity 1500)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Multi-faith
- Academy trust
- UNITED LEARNING TRUST
- Phone
- 02035976666
- Address
- Cook Road, Dagenham, RM9 6XW
- Website
- goresbrookschool.org.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.