Riverside Bridge School

State-Funded School

riverside-bridge-school-barking-and-dagenham-london

LondonRegion

Barking and DagenhamLocal Authority

BarkingConstituency

IG11 0FUPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Riverside Bridge School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 4–16, located in Barking and Dagenham, London.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 291 pupils. Riverside Bridge School is part of Partnership Learning.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Yes

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Quality ofeducation

Good

Personaldevelopment

Good

Behaviour &attitudes

Good

Ethnicity

White

21%

Asian

29%

Black

40%

Mixed

Unclassified

Pupils

291

Total Pupils

73%Boys

27%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

37%

England average

27%

First language not English

29%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 4 – 16
Deprivation band: Deprived
Total pupils: 291
IDACI quintile: 4 (Less deprived)
MAT name: Partnership Learning

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 26 March 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
18 Mar 2020	Good	Good	Good	Good	Good

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.