Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Waltham Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre is a primary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 September 2022. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 22 of the 27 other Waltham Forest primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 57 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 18.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Waltham Forest.
- The school has 20.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Waltham Forest.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Waltham Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Beresford Road, London, E17 4LN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 249 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils love to be part of this friendly and welcoming school.”
- “They described their teachers as kind, fun and helpful.”
- “Warm relationships between staff and pupils are rooted in the school’s values.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, leaders have not had opportunities to develop the curricular thinking.”
- “Opportunities for staff to develop their expertise are not consistently strong across all subjects.”
- “As a result, in some subjects, teachers do not deepen pupils’ understanding as well as they do in reading and mathematics.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 57 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 57 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 Waltham Forest.
- Chapel End Junior Academy 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Walthamstow Primary Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thorpe Hall Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Roger Ascham Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- The Winns Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Selwyn Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Our Lady and St George's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Woodside Primary Academy 0.6 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published