Village Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From London Borough of Barking and Dagenham · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2018–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Village Infants' School is a primary school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Village 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 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2021 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2020 | 0.45 mi |
| Reception 2019 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2018 | 1.10 mi |
| Reception 2017 | 0.40 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2025 every applicant was offered a place, as at 15 of the 38 other Barking and Dagenham primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 3 of the 8 earlier Reception years, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 70 first-choice applications for 71 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 17.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27% 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
- Ford Road, Dagenham, RM10 9JS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 296 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “This school is caring of and ambitious for all its pupils.”
- “It enables pupils to feel safe and happy.”
- “The staff work hard to help pupils achieve success.”
To improve
- “In some areas in the early years, the essential knowledge for certain activities is not always well defined.”
- “This can mean concepts are not always learned.”
- “These checks are not used regularly in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 70 first-preference applications, 71 offers in total, 70 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.
- William Ford CofE Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road 0.3 mi School remains 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
- Godwin Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Hunters Hall Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base 0.6 mi Good Last distance published