Schools near Dagenham
40 open schools in Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Barking and Dagenham schools · grammar schools in Dagenham
Dagenham has 40 state schools: 28 primary, 5 secondary, part of Barking and Dagenham's wider catchment. 36 have a published Ofsted rating, and 32 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.
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.
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.
Dagenham straddles a council boundary: the scheme above is Barking and Dagenham's, and Redbridge also has schools here, applying under its own.
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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