The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls

Academy converter·Secondary school Romford, Havering·RM1 2RR
Composite score
64.2
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#763
National rank
#215
In London
#5
In Havering
Top 24%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
51.4
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
71%
% EBacc grade 5+
31%
EBacc average points score
4.64

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
79%
237 first choices, 240 places
First choices per place
0.99
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
651
any preference, for 240 places
Applications from another council area
10%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320221.0720231.0820241.0120250.992026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls yet. Havering does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,393
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
24.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
2.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
17.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,758
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
97%
231 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
94%
Apprenticeship
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls

The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls is a girls' secondary school in Romford, Havering, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,393 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 51.4, above the national average of 46. That is down 3.3 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 24% of secondary schools nationally.

46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 71% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 79% of the families who made The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 97% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.5%. There are about 15.9 pupils per teacher. The Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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