St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Dagenham, 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, 2020–2025 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 28 June 2023. Barking and Dagenham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2025 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic 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 | Not published |
| Reception 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2021 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2020 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2019 | Not published |
| 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, as was the case at 15 of the 38 other Barking and Dagenham primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 17.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Barking and Dagenham.
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
- Connor Road, Dagenham, RM9 5UL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Barking and Dagenham
- Pupils on roll
- 277 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 28 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff are proud members of their school.”
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy playing together at breaktimes and lunchtimes.”
- “Pupils trust that adults will swiftly deal with any issues.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes, pupils are not remembering with fluency what they have been taught, and they are unable to make connections across their learning.”
- “This is because, at times, lessons are not focusing enough on the knowledge, skills and vocabulary identified in curriculum thinking.”
- “However, across the curriculum, some teaching does not build in checks on pupils’ understanding as effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 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) | 67% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- Five Elms Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Southwood Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Grafton Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Parsloes Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hunters Hall Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Valence Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- William Bellamy Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published