Riverside School, London
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Riverside School excels at creating a welcoming, inclusive environment where pupils feel safe and valued. The school's strong pastoral systems and positive staff relationships mean pupils are eager to attend, while the ambitious curriculum and extensive enrichment programme prepare them exceptionally well for adulthood. Leaders and staff are actively addressing areas for improvement, with clear support for pupils' complex needs.
Key Strengths
- Excellent attendance rates with highly effective support for pupils who were previously absent
- Strong behaviour and positive relationships between pupils and staff, with pupils demonstrating respect and self-regulation
- Comprehensive personal development curriculum including PSHE, British values, and online safety
- Wide range of enrichment activities with high take-up, including educational and residential visits
- Effective support systems for identifying and meeting individual pupil needs, including disadvantaged and looked-after children
Areas for Improvement
- Inconsistency in teaching quality across the curriculum, particularly in phonics and reading instruction
- Need to embed greater consistency in sixth-form teaching
- Variation in how well teaching meets school expectations for developing pupils' learning over time
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed.
Extracurricular Activities
Team spirit enrichment activities, educational visits to museums, residential trips including Slovenia, work experience, sports, music, art, food technology, computing activities, local community activities
Riverside School is a special school that has established strong safeguarding practices and excellent attendance and behaviour standards. Leaders have recently implemented improvements across the school, with staff and parents responding positively to these changes.
At a Glance
68.3%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
98%
Near capacity
172 pupils
175 capacity
3 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - London
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for London
Admissions Demand - Haringey
Places available
2,595
Applications
2,242
Got 1st preference
78.7%
Got preferred school
96.9%
Secondary admissions across Haringey (2025/26)
Inspection History(107)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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Teachers & Staff
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Pupil Absence2024/25
12.09922%
Overall absence
39.58333%
Persistent absence
144
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Riverside School
Earlham Primary School
Lordship Lane Primary School
Lift Noel Park
St Michael at Bowes CofE Junior School
Tottenhall Infant School
Lift Trinity
St Michael's CofE Primary School
St Paul's Catholic Primary School
Oakthorpe Primary School
Belmont Junior School
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