Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From London Borough of Barking and Dagenham · offers on 16 April 2025
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road is a primary school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 March 2024. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2021 | Not published |
| Reception 2020 | Not published |
| Reception 2019 | Not published |
| Reception 2018 | Not published |
| Reception 2017 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 44 first-choice applications for 44 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- At its 14 March 2024 inspection Ofsted found the school remains Good, and all 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham are rated Good.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 17.8 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 20.4 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
- Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road, Rowdowns Road, Dagenham, RM9 6NH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 454 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 March 2024
Strengths
- “Thomas Arnold is a warm and welcoming school.”
- “Pupils are friendly to staff and visitors alike.”
- “They are polite and behave well in lessons and at playtimes.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the school has not identified in sufficient detail the knowledge and skills that pupils should learn and the order in which they learn them.”
- “Other subjects need further time to embed so that assessment is consistently well used to gauge what pupils have learned.”
- “In these instances, some pupils do not secure as deep a body of knowledge or understanding.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 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) | 73% | 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: 44 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 44 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.
- Godwin Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Village Infants' School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- William Ford CofE Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Parsloes Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marsh Green Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The James Cambell Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base 0.8 mi Good Last distance published