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Goresbrook School
Cook Road, Dagenham RM9 6XW
Goresbrook School is a free school. It has 134 staff (about 127 FTEs), including 68 teachers (about 67 FTEs). (See here for details of the secondary school.)
Relative weaknesses include Assistant:teacher ratio, Unfilled vacancies, Qualified teachers and Staff development.
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Staff development: Below average. Reported staff development spend is £397 per teacher per year, which is quite low compared to other schools.
Qualified teachers: Poor. The proportion of qualified teachers is about 96%, which is very low compared to other schools.
Unfilled vacancies: Poor. The proportion of unfilled or temporarily filled teaching positions is 2.1%, which is very high compared to other schools.
Assistant:teacher ratio: Poor. The number of assistants per teacher is about 0.35, which is very low compared to other schools.
Pupil:teacher ratio: There is no pupil:teacher ratio information for this school.
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