Bigland Green Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Tower Hamlets
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.22 miles
Tie-break cut off distance (metres) · Published by London Borough of Tower Hamlets · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2025–2026 (miles)
Bigland Green Primary School is a primary school in London, Tower Hamlets for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Outstanding, from the inspection on 20 March 2024. Tower Hamlets has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Bigland Green Primary 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 | 0.22 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.29 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 0.22 miles away, the shortest of the 11 Tower Hamlets primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 89 first-choice applications for 56 offers; all 56 went to first-choice families, and 33 first-choice families (37%) were not offered a place.
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 20 March 2024, was School remains Outstanding; all 8 nearest primary schools in Tower Hamlets are rated Good.
- In 2024/25, 87% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 15% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Bigland Street, Wapping, London, E1 2ND
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Pupils on roll
- 477 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding Inspected 20 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love to learn and are very happy at Bigland Green.”
- “Pupils and staff live by the school’s values and ethos.”
- “Bullying is very rare and dealt with immediately if it does occur.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 87% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 89 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 56 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.
- Harry Gosling Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Kobi Nazrul Primary School 0.3 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Blue Gate Fields Infants' School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Blue Gate Fields Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- St Mary and St Michael Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi Good
- English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained