Furze Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Romford, Barking and Dagenham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From London Borough of Barking and Dagenham · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2017–2022 (miles)
Furze Infant School is a primary school in Romford, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 17 July 2024. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Furze Infant 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 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | Not published |
| Reception 2023 | Not published |
| Reception 2022 | 0.82 mi |
| Reception 2021 | Not published |
| Reception 2020 | 0.60 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.73 mi |
| Reception 2018 | Not published |
| Reception 2017 | 0.82 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 120 first-choice applications for 125 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- No Reception last distance was published for 2025; the 2022 figure was further from the school than in 2020, and about the same as in 2017.
- Free school meal eligibility is 12.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 22.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Barking and Dagenham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bennett Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 6ES
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 452 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 17 July 2024
Strengths
- “The school lives up to its motto of ‘learning happily together.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all pupils, and they have created a broad and balanced curriculum.”
- “Behaviour in lessons is calm and positive.”
To improve
- “In some other subjects, while the curriculum intent and ambition are strong, leaders do not consistently identify the important content they want pupils to learn and remember over time with precision.”
- “This means pupils sometimes struggle to recall their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 120 first-preference applications, 125 offers in total, 120 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 Barking and Dagenham.
- Warren Junior School 0.3 mi Outstanding
- Henry Green Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grafton Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Valence Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rose Lane Primary School 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- William Bellamy Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Vincent's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Five Elms Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published