Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · London, Tower Hamlets
Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School is a primary school in London, Tower Hamlets for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 September 2022.
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Key facts
- Address
- Wades Place, Poplar, London, E14 0DE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- See recorded establishment type
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Tower Hamlets
- Pupils on roll
- 411 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 September 2022
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming and thoroughly inclusive place to learn.”
- “Pupils are proud to belong to the school community.”
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy learning.”
To improve
- “However, leaders’ curriculum thinking is more established in some subjects, for instance mathematics and reading, than it is in others.”
- “In a few curriculum areas, such as music, leaders have not clearly defined the building blocks of knowledge that pupils need to make progress through the curriculum.”
- “Sometimes, however, teachers do not use what they know from checks on learning to build and extend pupils’ knowledge layer by layer.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 November 2022 (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) | 62% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 49 offers to first-preference applicants.
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Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Tower Hamlets.
- Mayflower Primary School 0.1 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Bygrove Primary School 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Lansbury Lawrence Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Cyril Jackson Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged
- St Saviour's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Woolmore Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding
- Stebon Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding
- Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Good