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Bower Park Academy

General Information

  • Address: Havering Road, Romford, RM1 4YY – View on map
  • Phone: 01708730244
  • Website: Visit school website
  • Headteacher: Mr Eddie Aylett
  • Age range: 11-16 years
  • Furthest place offered from: Not oversubscribed on distance that year From the council's own Sept 2025 admissions data - not a fixed catchment boundary, and no guarantee for future years, since it shifts with demand each year.
  • Demand for places (Year 7, September 2026): 117 families put it first for 189 places – 6 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 3 of the 189 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 7 · 2025 6 · 2026 6
  • Sixth form: No
  • Intake: Mixed
  • Religious character: Does not apply
  • Nursery provision: No

Who goes here

965 pupils out of 963 places At or near capacity
  • Pupils eligible for free school meals: 370
  • % eligible for free school meals: 38.4%
  • Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Havering average)
  • English as an additional language: 20% (England 22%)

Staff

Teachers leaving each year

  • Teacher turnover: 21.5% a year (Havering 16.5%, typical in England 15.5%)
  • Where they went: about 66% moved to another school, 34% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
  • Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)

Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.

Behaviour

Awaiting Data 2024/25

Across Havering: suspensions by reason

  • Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 13 (0.7 per 1,000 pupils; England 1.7)
  • Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
  • Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 1.9)
  • Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 5 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.8)
  • Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)

These are figures for all state secondary schools in Havering, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.

Attendance

  • Overall absence: 10.9%
  • Persistently absent pupils: 32.2%
  • Data year: 2024/25

SEN

  • SEN unit for Hearing impairmentVisual impairment 12 places · 5 pupils at the last count

Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.

  • Pupils on SEN Support: 13.0%
  • Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.8%
  • Data year: 2025/26

Most common needs - SEN Support

  • Moderate learning difficulty: 42 pupils
  • Social, emotional and mental health: 33 pupils
  • Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
  • Autistic spectrum disorder: 15 pupils
  • SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils

Most common needs - EHC Plan

  • Social, emotional and mental health: 26 pupils
  • Autistic spectrum disorder: 14 pupils
  • Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
  • Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
  • Vision impairment: 4 pupils

These figures show the makeup of the school.

Parent score 89%

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Behaviour
80%
Openness
88%
Teaching Quality
88%
School Ethos
100%
Ability to Deal with Problems
88%
Headteacher Approval
88%
Safeguarding
88%
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Educational Attainment

Good 2023 report

  • Attainment 8 score: 37.7
  • Compared with the area: 10.1 points below the Havering average (47.8)
  • Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (−6.9 points against an expected 44.6)
  • Grade 4+ in English and maths: 52% (Havering 69%, England 65%) Falling
  • Data year: 2024/25

View the School Context Comparator – how this school's results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.

GCSE results over time

2022/232023/242024/2540.841.437.7
This schoolHavering averageEngland Falling Down 3.1 points since 2022/23. In 2024/25 this school was 10.1 points below the Havering average (47.8).

Leaver Destinations

  • In education, employment, or training a year later: 84.0%
  • Went into further education: 80.0%
  • Data year: 2024/25

GCSE Subjects Offered

  • English Language
  • Maths (General)
  • English Literature
  • Science Double Award
  • History
  • Sociology
  • Geography
  • French Language
  • Sports Studies
  • Media Studies
  • Art & Design
  • D & T
  • Religious Studies
  • Speech & Drama
  • Computer Science
  • Music Studies (General)
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • German
  • Urdu
  • Turkish
  • Italian
  • Arabic
  • Business Studies
  • Portuguese

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Financials

Spending per pupil: £8,536 (2024-25)

View on the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (GOV.UK)