Plashet School
Plashet Grove, East Ham, London, E6 1DG
This school is closed (it closed in December 2025).
It was replaced by Plashet, City of London Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Girls
- Headteacher
- Mrs Rachel McGowan
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- East Ham
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,500
- Pupils on roll
- 1,488
- URN
- 102782
- Local authority
- Newham
About this school
Plashet School was a girls' community secondary school in London. It taught children aged 11 to 16 and had 1,488 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Plashet School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 297 | 291 | 290 |
| Attainment 8 score | 55.4 | 56.5 | 56.4 |
| Progress 8 score | +0.67 +0.51 to +0.84 | +0.87 +0.70 to +1.04 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 62% | 67.4% | 59.7% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 76% | 82.1% | 83.4% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 82% | 83.5% | 88.6% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Plashet School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Newham average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 55.4 | 46.5 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 56.5 | 46.6 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 56.4 | 47.2 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 6.9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.3% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.4% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1,496 |
| 2023/24 | 1,487 |
| 2024/25 | 1,488 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Plashet School compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 89% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 32% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 56.4 | 6.4% | 48.5% | 1,488 | — |
| Plashet, City of London Academy | — | — | — | 1,469 | 0.0 miles |
| Little Ilford School | 47.6 | 7.8% | 50.1% | 1,781 | 0.6 miles |
| St Angela's Ursuline School | 54.1 | 5.7% | 41.9% | 1,311 | 0.9 miles |
| St Bonaventure's RC School | 47.3 | 5.3% | 41.9% | 1,352 | 1.1 miles |
| Lister Community School | 44.1 | 8.2% | 55% | 1,470 | 1.1 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 48.52%
- English as an additional language
- 74.4%
- Overall absence
- 6.44%
- Persistent absence
- 19.31%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Plashet, City of London Academy0.0 miles
Secondary · London
-
Little Ilford School0.6 miles
Secondary · London
-
St Angela's Ursuline School0.9 miles
Secondary · London
-
St Bonaventure's RC School1.1 miles
Secondary · London
-
Lister Community School1.1 miles
Secondary · London
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- Ada Lovelace Church of England High School Secondary
- Addey and Stanhope School Secondary
- AIM Academy North London Secondary
- Alexandra Park School Secondary
- All Saints Catholic College Secondary
- All Saints Catholic High School Secondary
- Ark Acton Academy Secondary
- Ark All Saints Academy Secondary
- Ark Bolingbroke Academy Secondary
- Ark Burlington Danes Academy Secondary
- Ark Elvin Academy Secondary
Common questions
- What year groups does Plashet School teach?
- Plashet School taught children aged 11 to 16. It was a secondary school in London.
- Has Plashet School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Plashet School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Plashet School?
- Plashet School had 1,488 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- How have Plashet School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 55.4 in 2022/23 and 56.4 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Plashet School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Plashet School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 31 December 2025.