School profile
Riverside Bridge School
Renwick Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 0FU
Overview
Riverside Bridge School is a special / send school (free schools special) in Barking, London, for pupils aged 4–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Free schools special
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 270
- Pupils on roll
- 291
- URN
- 142134
Admissions
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Academy trust or group
- PARTNERSHIP LEARNING
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 20% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 25 February 2020 · Published 18 March 2020
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 26 March 2025 · Published 11 May 2025
Outcome: Standards maintained
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Renwick Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 0FU
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
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