The Sydney Russell School


The Sydney Russell School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Dagenham, London, England.

Admissions

It is near the junction of the A124 and Porters Avenue. It is around two miles north of the Ford Dagenham plant.

History

Grammar school

One of the predecessor schools, which was established in 1935, was Dagenham County High School. That school had around five hundred boys and girls. It was built on the Becontree Estate, which had twenty seven thousand houses. From 1965 it was administered by the London Borough of Barking.

Comprehensive

In a reorganisation in 1970, the buildings of the above mentioned predecessor school became the location for a new comprehensive school, Parsloes Manor School.

Name change

In a reorganisation in 1990, the above mentioned predecessor school amalgamated with two other local schools. The name of the new school formed was The Sydney Russell School, after Sydney Russell a local Methodist minister who served as chair of the governors at the former Parsloes Manor Comprehensive School.

Academy

In February 2015 the school converted to Academy status.

Academic performance

The school gets above average results at GCSE, with the second best EBacc results in Barking & Dagenham.
At A-level the school achieves the highest progress scores in the borough.

Notable former pupils

Dagenham County High School