Godwin Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · 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, 2019–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Godwin Primary School is a primary school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 May 2025. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Godwin 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 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 | 0.94 mi |
| Reception 2019 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 71% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every Reception 2025 applicant was offered a place; places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 6 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 35 first-choice applications for 35 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 19.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 28.4% 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
- Finnymore Road, Dagenham, RM9 6JH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 422 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 May 2025
Strengths
- “Through clear communication with families, the school supports parents and carers to build upon their children’s eagerness to learn.”
- “The school’s values of thoughtfulness, responsibility, determination, working together, resilience, respect and understanding are seen throughout this school.”
- “Pupils understand what these values mean.”
To improve
- “In a few instances, this subject knowledge is not as strong.”
- “This means that staff are less secure in designing activities that help pupils to learn the curriculum content.”
- “Therefore, in those instances, pupils’ progression in learning the curriculum is not as strong as the school aspires to.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 June 2025 (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) | 71% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 35 offers in total, 35 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.
- 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
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The James Cambell Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Village Infants' School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- William Ford CofE Junior School 0.6 mi Good
- Marsh Green Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base 0.9 mi Good Last distance published