The London school enabling students in a deprived community to thrive through self-worth after many had written them off.
Rivers Academy West London, a state secondary school based in Feltham in the London Borough of Hounslow, UK, is giving students in its deprived community the self-worth to stand tall amongst the best in the world. At Rivers Academy, 31% of students are eligible for free school meals, markedly higher than the national average of 20.8%, and 51% speak English as an additional language versus only 17.5% nationally. Despite this, it has transformed from a National Challenge School where only 25% of students achieved five GCSEs passes at A*-C in 2008 to, today, a school with four Ofsted Outstanding grades where 72% of students pass their GCSEs, with 5% of students every year going on to Oxbridge as well as other top universities including Harvard. While many in the community had written off the life chances of students in Feltham, the school has achieved all of this with a single-minded focus on supporting their wellbeing and giving them the confidence to thrive.
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Rivers Academy is committed to outstanding outcomes for its students. We work hard to foster high levels of self-worth within an academy community that has the very highest expectations in terms of uniform, behaviour, attendance and punctuality. As a consequence Rivers is a happy and confident community where learners achieve exceptionally well.
