The Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Upminster

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades The Coopers' Company and Coborn School on 7 areas: 5 strong standard and 2 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Over time, pupils achieve well and GCSE outcomes are above national values."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils' attendance is high across all year groups."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have a precise and accurate understanding of the strengths of the curriculum."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have created a culture where the personal development programme sits at the heart of the school's work."

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "Sixth‑form students study a wide and balanced range of subjects."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff create a welcoming culture where all pupils are expected to achieve well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders at all levels are ambitious and set high expectations."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to strengthen and embed the provision for special educational needs and/or disabilities, so that pupils' needs are met with increasing precision and adaptations are consistently applied across subjects"; "Leaders should refine how they evaluate the impact of their work, so that improvement actions are timely and closely matched to need".

In 2026, pupils at The Coopers' Company and Coborn School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 58.1, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 48.5 in Havering and 47 across England.

69% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 50% in Havering and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 58.2.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.45: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 49.3, against 59 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.7 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 23 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and Business Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 383 families put The Coopers' Company and Coborn School as their first choice and 1205 named it as one of their preferences, for 205 places offered. That is 1.9 first choices for every place. 186 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to The Coopers' Company and Coborn School are Hall Mead School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 51.5); Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School (0.7 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 59.5); Gaynes School (0.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.7); and Emerson Park Academy (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.3).

The Coopers' Company and Coborn School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Of the 205 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 95% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 23% to a further education college and 2% to an apprenticeship.

Of the 270 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 62% went on to university or other higher education, 12% to apprenticeships and 19% into work. 34% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

5.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 9.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (64%), Asian (9%) and Black (8%).

In 2026, 47 pupils (3%) received SEN support and 40 (2.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Upminster Station, about 660 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Argyle Gardens, 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood The Coopers' Company and Coborn School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 83 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Havering (201).

In 2024/25, The Coopers' Company and Coborn School issued 47 suspensions, 3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to The Coopers' Company and Coborn School are Upminster Infant School (0.4 miles), Upminster Junior School (0.4 miles), The James Oglethorpe Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.