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Schools in Barking and Dagenham

63 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Barking and Dagenham has 62 state schools: 44 primary, 8 secondary, 5 all-through. Between them they teach around 45,807 pupils. 52 have enough published data for a score, averaging 6.0 out of 10, and 10 score 8 or above.

17 have a sixth form. 42 take children from age three or under. 11 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Good or better

48

of 49 rated

Average score

6.0

out of 10

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Riverside School Outstanding · ×0.74 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Roding Primary School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Dagenham Park CofE School Good · ×0.86 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Henry Green Primary School Good · ×0.86 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Greatfields School Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base Good · ×0.92 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Eastbury Primary School Good · ×0.93 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Robert Clack School Good · ×0.93 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Grafton Primary School Outstanding · ×0.94 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Valence Primary School Good · ×0.94 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Barking and Dagenham

Primary schools: Many community schools use straight-line distance as the oversubscription criterion; unplaced children fall back to the nearest school with a vacancy, not a catchment school. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Al Madina School for Girls Barking All Saints Catholic School and Technology College Dagenham · Outstanding Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College Barking · Outstanding Barking and Dagenham College Romford · Good Beam Primary School Dagenham · Not judged Becontree Primary School Dagenham · Good Brook Sixth Form and Academy Dagenham · Not judged Dagenham Park CofE School Dagenham · Good Dorothy Barley Infants' School Dagenham · Good Dorothy Barley Junior Academy Dagenham · Good Eastbrook School Dagenham Eastbury Community School Barking · Good Eastbury Primary School Barking · Good Five Elms Primary School Dagenham · Good Furze Infant School Romford · Good Gascoigne Primary School Barking · Good George Carey Church of England Primary School Barking · Good Godwin Primary School Dagenham · Good Goresbrook School Dagenham · Not judged Grafton Primary School Dagenham · Outstanding Greatfields Primary School Barking Greatfields School Barking · Good Henry Green Primary School Dagenham · Good Hunters Hall Primary School Dagenham · Good Jo Richardson Community School Dagenham · Outstanding John Perry Primary School Dagenham · Good Manor Junior School Barking · Not judged Manor Primary School Dagenham · Good Marsh Green Primary School Dagenham · Good Monteagle Primary School Dagenham Northbury Primary School Barking Oxlow Bridge School Dagenham Parsloes Primary School Dagenham · Good Pathways School Dagenham · Good Richard Alibon Primary School with ARP for Cognitive and Learning Difficulties : SEN Base Dagenham · Good Ripple Primary School Barking · Good Riverside Bridge School Barking · Good Riverside Primary School Barking · Good Riverside School Barking · Outstanding Robert Clack School Dagenham · Good Roding Primary School Dagenham · Good Rose Lane Primary School Romford · Requires improvement Rush Green Primary School Romford · Not judged Southwood Primary School Dagenham · Good St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Barking · Good St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Dagenham · Good St Margarets CofE Primary School Barking · Good St Peter's Catholic Primary School Dagenham · Good St Vincent's Catholic Primary School Dagenham · Good Thames View Infants Barking · Outstanding Thames View Junior School Barking The James Cambell Primary School Dagenham · Good The Leys Primary School Dagenham · Good The St Teresa Catholic Primary School Dagenham · Not judged The Sydney Russell School Dagenham The Warren School Romford · Outstanding Thomas Arnold Primary School, Rowdowns Road Dagenham · Good Trinity School Dagenham · Outstanding Valence Primary School Dagenham · Good Village Infants' School Dagenham · Good Warren Junior School Romford · Outstanding William Bellamy Primary School Dagenham · Good William Ford CofE Junior School Dagenham · Good

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Key dates

Entry year	Event	Date
Sept 2028	Application deadline	31 October 2027
Sept 2028	Primary application deadline	15 January 2028
Sept 2028	Offer day	1 March 2028
Sept 2028	Primary offer day	17 April 2028
Sept 2027	Application deadline	31 October 2026
Sept 2027	Primary application deadline	15 January 2027
Sept 2027	Offer day	1 March 2027
Sept 2027	Primary offer day	16 April 2027
Sept 2026	Application deadline	31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary application deadline	15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Offer day	2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary offer day	16 April 2026 (passed)

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