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Turing House School, Twickenham

Good
Secondary
Free schools
Mixed
Ages 11–19

Turing House School is a secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 19 in Twickenham, part of Russell Education Trust. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in May 2018. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in December 2024 did not change this grade. Its 2026 GCSE results were the 3rd-highest of the 5 schools in Twickenham with published results, and 375th of 3,298 across England. For 2026 entry it had 1.7 first-choice applications for every place. It was 95% full in 2025.

GCSE results
Above England average
Ofsted
Good (2018)
Demand
1.7 first choices per place
Attendance
Better than England average
Progress (2024)
Well above average
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Year 7 applications for September 2027 close in 4 days

Deadline Saturday 31 October 2026. Apply to Richmond upon Thames (the council where you live). Offers on 1 March.

Data last updated 27 Oct 2026

Turing House School in detail

Results

In 2026, pupils at Turing House School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 56.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 56.8 in Richmond upon Thames and 47 across England.

71% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 65% in Richmond upon Thames and 47% in England.

That is up from 54.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.67: pupils made well 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 43.6, against 59.2 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 15.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Business Studies.

Getting a place at Turing House School

For September 2026 entry, 257 families put Turing House School as their first choice and 1164 named it as one of their preferences, for 153 places offered. That is 1.7 first choices for every place. 147 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Admissions history and your chances at Turing House School

Compared with nearby schools

The nearest other state secondary schools to Turing House School are Twickenham School (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.9); The Heathland School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 50.7); Waldegrave School (1.1 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 64.5); and The Richmond upon Thames School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 52.9).

Turing House School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Twickenham SchoolThe Heathland SchoolWaldegrave SchoolThe Richmond upon Thames School

The trust

Turing House School is one of 7 schools run by Russell Education Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 54.6 in 2024/25.

All 7 schools in Russell Education Trust

What parents say

313 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Turing House School (as of September 2025): 98% would recommend the school, 98% say their child is happy there and 78% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (98%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (78%).

Where pupils go next

Of the 124 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 97% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 24% to a further education college and 1% to an apprenticeship.

Of the 71 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 69% went on to university or other higher education, 4% to apprenticeships and 11% into work. 30% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

Who goes there

14.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 11.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (58%), Mixed (12%) and Asian (11%).

Getting there

The nearest railway station is Whitton Station, about 690 metres away (roughly a 9-minute walk).

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Turing House School Grounds (->s), 30 metres away.

Suspensions and exclusions

In 2024/25, Turing House School issued 80 suspensions, 8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

Primary schools nearby

The primary schools closest to Turing House School are Bishop Perrin Church of England Primary School (0.1 miles), Heathfield Infant School (0.3 miles), Heathfield Junior School (0.3 miles) and Nelson Primary School (0.3 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.

Bishop Perrin Church of England Primary SchoolHeathfield Infant SchoolHeathfield Junior SchoolNelson Primary School

Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE multi-academy trust performance data; Ofsted Parent View; DfE destination measures; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); DfE exclusions statistics

Location

Likely (~578m)Possible (~826m)Unlikely (~1.1km)

Our estimate from how close the nearest similar schools are and how oversubscribed the council's schools are. It is not a published boundary.

Key Information

DfE GIAS
Head:Martin O'Sullivan
Pupils:1,047
LA:Richmond upon Thames
Phone:02080696100
Address:Hospital Bridge Road, Twickenham, TW2 6LH
Trust:RUSSELL EDUCATION TRUST (7 schools)
Admissions:Non-selective
Status:open
Opened:1 September 2015

Ofsted Rating

Ofsted · 2 years ago

This judgement is from May 2018, 8 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.

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Overall

Outstanding

Quality of Education

Outstanding

Behaviour & Attitudes

Outstanding

Personal Development

Outstanding

Leadership & Management

Good

Sixth Form

Inspected 3 December 2024View full report
URN:141963
UKPRN:10053860
Constituency:Twickenham
Urban/Rural:Urban: Nearer to a major town or city

Ofsted Insights

From Ofsted's December 2024 inspection report.

What This School Does Well

Turing House provides an exceptional all-round education where your child will thrive both academically and personally. Teachers are highly skilled, know pupils well, and ensure misconceptions are dealt with quickly - helping children build genuine understanding. The school offers outstanding pastoral care, 60+ clubs and activities, excellent sports provision, and numerous trips, meaning your child will develop as a well-rounded individual with strong leadership skills alongside strong academic achievement.

Key Strengths

  • Highly ambitious and broad curriculum with subjects carefully organised so pupils build deep knowledge over time
  • Highly trained teachers who know pupils well and check understanding to address misconceptions swiftly
  • Excellent provision for pupils with special educational needs - needs identified with precision and appropriate support provided
  • Strong culture for reading with targeted intervention for pupils who are behind
  • Over 60 clubs and activities including arts, music, history, sports and trips that enhance pupils' personal development and leadership skills

Areas for Improvement

  • A few sixth-form students do not achieve as well as they could because assessment approaches have not been embedded sufficiently to help them recall knowledge
  • Some staff do not consistently use the school's approaches in the sixth form, resulting in some students receiving different levels of guidance
  • The sixth form is relatively new and some aspects of its provision lack systematic approaches

Safeguarding

Safeguarding arrangements are effective, with school creating an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts pupils' interests first.

Extracurricular Activities

Arts, crafts, history, music, school production, sports, trips to art galleries and sporting venues and places of worship, subject ambassador roles, tutor and sports captain positions, mentoring programme

Turing House School is an inclusive secondary school where pupils feel safe, behave exceptionally well, and achieve very strong outcomes. The school realises its vision of a 'safe, happy and learning community' by striving for academic excellence alongside developing the whole individual.

About

Turing House School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school which was opened in 2015 in the London Borough of Richmond, south-west London, under the Government's free schools initiative. The proposal for the school was initiated by local parents in 2011 in partnership with the Russell Education Trust (RET), who operate four other free schools in the south and south-west of...

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At a Glance

14.4%

Free School Meals

No

Boarding

No

Nursery

Yes

Sixth Form

No

Special Measures

What Parents Think

313 responses
Would recommend98%
Child is happy98%
Child does well97%
High expectations96%
Feels safe98%
Well behaved96%
Bullying dealt with (of parents with a view)78%
Kept informed93%
Handles concerns (of parents who raised one)91%
Wider development93%

Source: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree

Secondary Performance (GCSE)

Academic year 2025/26

GCSE Results

2023
2024
2025
2026
Attainment 8 GCSE Eng+Maths

2025/26 academic year

Progress 8 has improved from 0.52 to 0.67 (2023 to 2024). Attainment 8 has declined from 59.4 to 56.8 (2023 to 2026). GCSE English & Maths 5+ has declined from 76% to 71% (2023 to 2026).

Performance by Group

GroupProgress 8Attainment 8Eng+Maths 5+
All pupils-56.871.2%
Disadvantaged(25)-43.652%
Not known to be disadvantaged(138)-59.274.6%
Boys(112)-57.075%
Girls(51)-56.562.7%
Show more breakdowns (2)
Known or believed to be other than English(18)-64.377.8%
Non mobile(155)-57.672.3%

2025/26 academic year - DfE performance tables data

GCSE Subjects Offered

English Language324
Mathematics323
English Literature314
Combined Science206
History192
Business Studies160
Geography140
Social Studies128
Spanish126
Physics110
Chemistry110
Biology110
Sports Studies92
Hospitality and Catering72
Art and Design68
Drama68
Computer Science46
Media / Film / TV Studies46
Other Sciences40
Music28

+ 4 more subjects

2025/26 academic year - entries by number of pupils

After GCSEs - Leaver Destinations

After GCSEs (Year 11) - 124 students

Continued education97%
Further education24%
Apprenticeships1%
Employment0%
Not in education/employment2%

2023/24 data

Exclusions & Suspensions

0

Permanent exclusions

0.00%

Exclusion rate

80

Suspensions

7.95%

Suspension rate

38 pupils received one or more suspensions out of 1,006 pupils

2024/25 academic year

How Does This School Compare?

Ranked against 5 nearby secondary schools

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Getting There

Train Stations

Whitton Station (Entrance)
685m · 11 min walk
Whitton Rail Station
713m · 12 min walk

Bus Stops

Turing House School Grounds (->S)
31m · 1 min walk
Montrose Avenue (TW2) (->S)
124m · 2 min walk
Vincam Close (->N)
174m · 3 min walk
Constance Road (Stop T)
268m · 4 min walk
Ashley Drive (->S)
301m · 5 min walk

Free school transport

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You apply to the council where you live. Turing House School is in Richmond upon Thames; for families living there:

Apply to Richmond upon Thames for free school transport. Its policy is on the council's website.

Safety and surroundings

Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)

Collisions
9
Fatal
1
Serious
2
Children hurt
3

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 6 slight.

3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.

1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.

The typical figure for schools in Richmond upon Thames is 27 (the median across 86 schools, same distance and years).

Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Your chances of a place at Turing House School

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What the report includes for Turing House School:

  • The straight-line distance from your home to Turing House School.
  • We hold no last distance offered figures from Richmond upon Thames, so the report covers demand, alternatives and dates.
  • Applications, first choices and offers at Turing House School for 2016 to 2026 entry.
  • How many families in Richmond upon Thames got their first choice, and how often appeals there succeed.
  • The nearest state schools to your home, with Ofsted rating, demand and last distance offered where published.
  • Key dates for September 2027 entry and how to apply.

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Capacity & Demand

School Occupancy

95%

Near capacity

1,001 pupils

1,050 places

49 spare places in 2025

2025, DfE school capacity data

Area Demand Pressure - Twickenham

High pressure
New homes approved:237
Projected new pupils:43

Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Twickenham

Across Richmond upon Thames council

Low demand council-wide0.89 applications per place

Places available

2,266

Applications

2,021

Got 1st preference

62.2%

Got preferred school

93.0%

All secondary applications across Richmond upon Thames council (2026/27), not just this school.

This school: 1.7 first choices per place

Inspection History(3)

3 December 2024
Quality of EducationOutstanding
Behaviour & AttitudesOutstanding
Personal DevelopmentOutstanding
Leadership & ManagementOutstanding
Sixth FormGood
11 October 2023

Ungraded inspection: The school remains Good and may be improving; its next inspection will be a full graded one.

9 May 2018
Leadership & ManagementOutstanding

SEND & SEN Provision

SEN Overview

218

SEN Support

39

EHC Plans

24.5%

of Total Pupils

2026 academic year

Provision & Specialist Facilities

No specialist provision recorded

Pupils by Need Type

Specific Learning Difficulty108
Autistic Spectrum Disorder41
Social, Emotional & Mental Health35
Speech, Language & Communication25
Other24
Moderate Learning Difficulty11
Physical Disability7
Hearing Impairment3
Visual Impairment2
EHC Plan
SEN Support

Pupil Demographics

Ethnicity

White British
57.6%
Asian
10.6%
Black
2.0%
Mixed
11.8%
Chinese
1.5%
Other
3.4%
Unclassified
1.7%

2026 academic year

Key Indicators

Free School Meals14.4%
English as Additional Language11.1%

1,047

Total Pupils

711

Boys

336

Girls

2026 academic year

Workforce

54

Teachers

19.4:1

Pupil-teacher ratio

£52,221

Mean salary

2026 data

School Funding

£7,162

Per pupil

£6247k

Total funding

£137k

Pupil premium

Deprivation£352,150
EAL funding£33,507
Lump sum£159,662

2025-26 financial year allocations

Pupil Absence
2024/25

6.4%

Overall absence

14.3%

Persistent absence

840

Enrolments

Authorised4.5%
Unauthorised1.9%
Persistent (10%+)14.3%
Severe (50%+)1.7%

Absence trend

5.0%
18/19
4.2%
20/21
7.8%
21/22
6.9%
22/23
6.8%
23/24
6.4%
24/25
Overall absence rate

Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.

Questions parents ask about Turing House School

What are GCSE results like at Turing House School?

In the 2026 results, pupils at Turing House School achieved an Attainment 8 score of 56.8. 71% passed GCSE English and maths at grade 5 or above.

What is Turing House School's Ofsted rating?

Turing House School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in December 2024, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in May 2018, it was rated Good.

What is the catchment area for Turing House School?

No fixed boundary. When Turing House School is oversubscribed, Richmond upon Thames allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.

Is it hard to get a place at Turing House School?

Turing House School was close to full in 2025, at 95% of its capacity.

How big are the classes at Turing House School?

Classes at Turing House School average 23.6 pupils (2025/26).

How many pupils go to Turing House School?

Turing House School has around 1047 pupils on roll. 14% are eligible for free school meals.

What is attendance like at Turing House School?

6.4% of sessions were missed at Turing House School in 2024/25. 14.3% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

How do I apply to Turing House School?

Apply through Richmond upon Thames's coordinated admissions process, naming Turing House School on your application. Applications for Year 7 places starting in September 2027 close on Saturday 31 October 2026, and offers are made on Monday 1 March 2027.

How many road collisions happen near Turing House School?

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 9 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 6 slight. 3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Richmond upon Thames is 27 (the median across 86 schools, same distance and years).

Where is Turing House School?

Turing House School is at Hospital Bridge Road, Twickenham, TW2 6LH.

Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)

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