Barn Croft Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · London, Waltham Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Waltham Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2020–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barn Croft Primary School is a primary school in London, Waltham Forest for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 8 July 2025. Waltham Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Barn Croft 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 | 🔒 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
- For Reception 2026 there were 32 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 23 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families (28%) were not offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, as at 2 of the 20 other Waltham Forest primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 26% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 figure of 68% was the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- 2 Brunel Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 8SB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Waltham Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 170 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 8 July 2025
Strengths
- “Barn Croft is an extremely friendly and welcoming school at the heart of the local community.”
- “The school has set an ambitious mission for its pupils to aim high and achieve their potential as socially responsible citizens.”
- “Pupils live up to these expectations, they work hard and generally achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculum is at an earlier stage of design and implementation and, therefore, not fully embedded.”
- “In these subjects, assessment is not used as precisely to check what pupils know and remember.”
- “As a result, some pupils are not as secure in their understanding and less well prepared to learn more complex ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 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) | 68% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 23 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.
- St Saviour's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- South Grove Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Coppermill Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Edinburgh Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Sybourn Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Mission Grove Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thomas Gamuel Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published