Thames View Infants
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Barking, 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.
Thames View Infants is a primary school in Barking, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 25 June 2024. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Thames View Infants 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 | 2.04 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 2.68 mi |
| Reception 2019 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2018 | 0.78 mi |
| Reception 2017 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted rated it Outstanding on 25 June 2024; of the 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham, 4 are Good and 4 have no current grade.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 130 first-choice applications for 120 offers; all 120 went to first-choice families, and 10 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Reception entry had 1.1 first choices per offer, the 4th highest of 39 Barking and Dagenham primary schools.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2025 was offered a place, though places ran out in 3 of the 7 earlier years with a published outcome.
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
- Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 403 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 25 June 2024
Strengths
- “Each individual pupil is at the heart of Thames View Infants.”
- “Strong relationships between pupils, families and staff are fostered.”
- “These relationships underpin the culture of high achievement.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 130 first-preference applications, 120 offers in total, 120 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.
- Thames View Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- George Carey Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eastbury Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Riverside Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Monteagle Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ripple Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Greatfields Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manor Junior School 1.1 mi Not judged