Forest Gate Community School

Forest Gate Community School is a mixed comprehensive secondary school in the London Borough of Newham, rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2016. The school plans to extend form entry from eight forms of entry to nine – rising to a total of 1,350 pupils – starting with the Year 7 admission in September 2019 to meet demand from local parents. The school was described in an article in the Daily Mail as "one of the most inspirational in Britain".The school's motto is Fly, Grow, Connect, StriveHistoryThe school was built by architects Colquhoun and Miller in 1965 to replace Whitehall Place School Senior Mixed School.It was opened in February 1966 by The Right Honourable Sir F. Elwyn Jones, who was the Labour MP for West Ham South at the time.It was originally called Forest Gate County High School.AwardsForest Gate Community School won the Evening Standard outstanding achievement in challenging circumstances award in 2017. In the same year, it was nominated for the TES secondary school of the year but did not win. The school was accredited with the NACE Challenge Award in November 2016.GCSEsKey statistics from GCSE results in 2016: On the new "Progress8" measure the school scored 1.1 87% of students gained an A*-C grade in English. 74% of students obtained 5 GCSEs A*-C including English and Maths. 93% of students made expected progress in English (the national average for 2015 was 65%). 76% of students gained an A*-C grade in Mathematics. 82% of students made expected progress in Mathematics(the national average for 2014 was 65%).