Marshalls Park Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Romford, Havering·RM1 4EH
Composite score
53.6
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#2,078
National rank
#396
In London
#15
In Havering
Top 65%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
42.9
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
33%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
58%
% EBacc grade 5+
16%
EBacc average points score
3.92

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
220 first choices, 239 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
627
any preference, for 239 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8820220.9020230.8720240.8220250.922026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Marshalls Park Academy 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,175
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
22.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
21.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,965
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
90%
229 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
82%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Marshalls Park Academy is a secondary school serving Romford, Havering, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,175 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Marshalls Park Academy 'Good'. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 42.9, below the national average of 46. That is down 1.0 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 lower half of secondary schools nationally.

33% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 58% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 91% of the families who made Marshalls Park Academy 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, 90% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.5%. There are about 15.4 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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