Southwood 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, 2018–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Southwood Primary School is a primary school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Southwood 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2019 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2018 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2017 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2025 applicant was offered a place, as at 15 of the 38 other Barking and Dagenham primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- 56% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham.
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 57 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- At 27.7%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals is above the middle figure of 22.5% 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
- Keppel Road, Dagenham, RM9 5LT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 593 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 July 2023
Strengths
- “This is a school where everyone is made to feel welcome.”
- “Pupils are thoughtful and show respect to others, and they are happy and feel safe.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils’ behaviour and make standards clear.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, subject content is not taught routinely in the order that leaders have planned.”
- “Sometimes, key content is missed out from the intended sequence.”
- “This means that, in some subjects, pupils have gaps in their knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 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) | 56% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 56 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.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The St Teresa Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Valence Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Five Elms Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grafton Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Parsloes Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Henry Green Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published