Churchfields Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · London, Redbridge
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.669 miles
Published by London Borough of Redbridge · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Churchfields Infants' School is a primary school in London, Redbridge for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 3 July 2024. Redbridge has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Churchfields 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 | 0.669 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
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place as a sibling lived 0.669 miles away, nearer than in 2025 and further than in 2021.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 172 first-choice applications for 119 offers; 118 offers went to first-choice families and 54 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Redbridge is 15.8%.
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
- Churchfields, South Woodford, London, E18 2RB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Redbridge
- Pupils on roll
- 429 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 3 July 2024
Strengths
- “All staff work to foster pupils’ love of learning.”
- “The school has very high expectations.”
- “These aspirations are realised.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 172 first-preference applications, 119 offers in total, 118 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.
- Churchfields Junior School 0.1 mi Not judged
- Oakdale Infants' School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakdale Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Snaresbrook Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Nightingale Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ray Lodge Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Antony's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wanstead Church School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published