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Sarah Bonnell School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,202of 1,350 places
- Free school meals
- 57.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 266
- Ofsted
- Good, 2 November 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Sarah Bonnell School (URN 102785, until 1 March 2016).
What the data says
Sarah Bonnell School has no sixth form. Of the 266 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 34% moved to a sixth form college, 10% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 56.7 against 46.1 across England and 51.2 in Newham, with 62% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 34% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
Sociology is unusually popular at GCSE: 21% of the year group took it, against 4% of pupils across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Newham and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Sarah Bonnell School | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 266 | 4,613 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 96% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 96% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 50% | 39% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 34% | 28% | 13% |
| — further education college | 10% | 23% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 2% | 4% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Sarah Bonnell School | Newham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 56.7 | 51.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 62% | 53% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 80% | 72% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 57% | 59% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.13 | 4.64 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 47% | 51% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 55.0 | 48.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 58.1 | 54.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 71% | 65% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 259 | 97% | 88% | 30% | 22% | 83% |
| English Language | 259 | 97% | 89% | 33% | 20% | 87% |
| English Literature | 257 | 97% | 86% | 42% | 21% | 92% |
| Religious Studies | 253 | 95% | 31% | 50% | 32% | 91% |
| Combined Science | 204 | 77% | 65% | 19% | 9% | 76% |
| History | 132 | 50% | 41% | 52% | 26% | 89% |
| Geography | 113 | 42% | 41% | 26% | 25% | 78% |
| Spanish | 68 | 26% | 19% | 32% | 27% | 85% |
| Business Studies | 57 | 21% | 18% | 30% | 20% | 82% |
| Sociology | 56 | 21% | 4% | 48% | 21% | 84% |
| Biology | 53 | 20% | 23% | 45% | 45% | 98% |
| Chemistry | 52 | 20% | 23% | 65% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 52 | 20% | 23% | 48% | 46% | 100% |
| French | 43 | 16% | 18% | 60% | 29% | 91% |
| Textiles | 35 | 13% | 2% | 37% | 27% | 97% |
| Italian | 34 | 13% | 0% | 56% | 53% | 100% |
| Citizenship Studies | 29 | 11% | 3% | 24% | 19% | 90% |
| Computer Science | 28 | 11% | 13% | 18% | 30% | 71% |
| Fine Art | 24 | 9% | 9% | 38% | 28% | 100% |
| Urdu | 21 | 8% | 1% | 76% | 42% | 86% |
| Drama | 21 | 8% | 7% | 19% | 27% | 76% |
| 3D Design | 20 | 8% | 2% | 20% | 16% | 90% |
| Photography | 18 | 7% | 6% | 28% | 19% | 100% |
| Music | 7 | 3% | 5% | 43% | 33% | 100% |
| Russian | 3 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Arabic | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Bengali | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 35% | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.