Riverside Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · 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, 2019–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Riverside Primary School is a primary school in Barking, Barking and Dagenham for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 October 2023. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
Riverside 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 | Not published |
| 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2017 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 87% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 23% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 87% in 2024/25 was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham that have results.
- 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.
- Reception 2026 had 85 first-choice applications for 86 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Renwick Road, Barking, IG11 0FU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 433 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and are kept safe at Riverside.”
- “They say this is because there are always teachers and friends around to help them should they need it.”
- “The school’s RESPECT values of resilience, empathy, self-belief, perseverance, effort, courage and tolerance are woven throughout the curriculum.”
To improve
- “A few subjects, however, are at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these areas, the key knowledge for pupils to learn has not been sequenced as systematically.”
- “As a result, learning is more fragmented, and pupils do not build their knowledge cumulatively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 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) | 87% | 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: 85 first-preference applications, 86 offers in total, 85 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.
- George Carey Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thames View Infants 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Thames View Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Monteagle Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The James Cambell Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Eastbury Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Godwin Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published