Oakdale Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · London, Redbridge
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.934 miles
Published by London Borough of Redbridge · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oakdale Infants' School is a primary school in London, Redbridge for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2023. Redbridge has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Oakdale Infants' 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 | 0.934 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
- In 2026 the last Reception place went to a child with a sibling at the school living 0.934 miles away, the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 59 first-choice applications for 88 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer and the 2nd lowest of 49 Redbridge primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 20.1% of pupils, against a middle figure of 15.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Redbridge.
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
- Woodville Road, South Woodford, London, E18 1JU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Redbridge
- Pupils on roll
- 299 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 September 2023
Strengths
- “Oakdale is a caring and nurturing school where pupils feel safe and are kept safe.”
- “Pupils show high levels of respect to others.”
- “They are considerate and listen to their friends.”
To improve
- “1 is ambitious, it does not consistently build towards what children need to know and remember from the early years”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 88 offers in total, 59 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.
- Oakdale Junior School 0.1 mi Not judged
- Churchfields Infants' School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Nightingale Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Churchfields Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Snaresbrook Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Wanstead Church School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ray Lodge Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Glade Primary School 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published