Edullect Academy Independent School, Romford

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Edullect Academy Independent School on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who may have other barriers to learning, develop important knowledge in reading, writing and mathematics that prepares them for the next steps in their learning."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "As soon as pupils join the school, leaders ensure that parents and carers understand the school's expectations for attendance, so that pupils develop positive attendance habits."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school's strengths and areas for development in curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established an inclusive culture in which pupils feel welcome and valued."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal, social and health education programme, which includes relationships and sex education and health education, reflects the school's ethos and meets the needs of all pupils."

Early years - Needs attention. "Leaders' intention to promote the development of children's communication and language is not implemented consistently well."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "In the early years, leaders do not focus training for staff effectively to support meaningful improvements to teaching across all areas of the curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "The proprietor must ensure that the school adheres to all the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage paragraphs 1.12, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 2.1 and 2.5"; "The proprietor body and leaders should ensure that the early years curriculum is consistently taught well and that teachers use assessment effectively to adapt teaching approaches, so that all pupils develop secure knowledge, skills and vocabulary across all subjects"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff in the early years understand how to promote and extend children's vocabulary and language development consistently and effectively. Leaders should ensure that activities in the early years provision support children to practise and apply their learning as intended"; "The proprietor body should ensure it provides robust challenge and support across all aspects of the school's work so that all the independent school standards are consistently met".

In its own words: "At Edullect Academy, we believe every child is full of limitless potential-brimming with curiosity, creativity, and the capacity to grow into a confident, kind and capable individual. Our school exists to nurture that potential through an outstanding, well-rounded education that focuses not only on academic success, but also on strong moral character and spiritual well-being."

The nearest other independent schools to Edullect Academy Independent School are Koru Independent AP Academy (1.1 miles, Good); St Mary's Hare Park School (1.1 miles); Gidea Park Preparatory School and Nursery (1.4 miles); and Bep Academy (2.1 miles, Good).

In 2026, 2 pupils (4.9%) received SEN support and 0 (0%) had an education, health and care plan.

The nearest railway station is Harold Wood Station, about 910 metres away (roughly a 11-minute walk).

12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Faringdon Avenue / Chatteris Avenue (->w), 180 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Edullect Academy Independent School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 370 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Havering (201), as is usual near a town centre.