Nightingale Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · London, Redbridge
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.961 miles
Published by London Borough of Redbridge · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Nightingale Primary School is a primary school in London, Redbridge for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 October 2023. Redbridge has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Nightingale 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 | 0.961 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place as a sibling lived 0.961 miles away, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2021, and distances swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 67 first-choice applications for 89 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 22 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 26% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Redbridge schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ashbourne Avenue, South Woodford, London, E18 1PL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Redbridge
- Pupils on roll
- 685 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this vibrant, caring and friendly school.”
- “The school values of courage, compassion and curiosity are well understood and demonstrated by pupils.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and nurturing.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes the tasks teachers select, do not help pupils to practise and embed the important knowledge they need to secure.”
- “In these instances, some pupils struggle to understand new ideas because they have gaps in aspects of their prior learning.”
- “Assessment is not used consistently well to check if pupils have understood what they have been taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2023 (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) | 79% | 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: 67 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 67 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 Redbridge.
- Snaresbrook Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Oakdale Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Oakdale Infants' School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wanstead Church School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Redbridge Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Churchfields Infants' School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Churchfields Junior School 1.1 mi Not judged