Blue Gate Fields Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · London, Tower Hamlets
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.36 miles
Published by London Borough of Tower Hamlets · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2025–2026 (miles)
Blue Gate Fields Infants' School is a primary school in London, Tower Hamlets for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 9 October 2024. Tower Hamlets has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Blue Gate Fields Infants' School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.36 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.47 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.36 miles from the school, nearer than the last child offered a place in 2025.
- The Reception 2026 last distance of 0.36 miles was the 6th longest of the 11 Tower Hamlets primary schools (this one included) with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 81 first-choice applications for 85 offers; 74 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- The school has 26.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Tower Hamlets.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Tower Hamlets schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- King David Lane, Stepney, London, E1 0EH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Pupils on roll
- 336 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 9 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at this happy school.”
- “The school has created an atmosphere where pupils ‘learn, grow and achieve’ together.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school because they have kind friends to play with.”
To improve
- “However, on occasions in early years, some teaching does not model important vocabulary or sentence structures that the school wants children to hear and practise.”
- “When this is the case, some children miss out on meaningful opportunities to hear and use key vocabulary.”
- “However, sometimes teaching does not check what pupils know sufficiently well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 81 first-preference applications, 85 offers in total, 74 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Tower Hamlets.
- Blue Gate Fields Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- St Mary and St Michael Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Bigland Green Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained
- Marion Richardson Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Good
- Harry Gosling Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Stepney Park Primary School 0.6 mi Good