Manor Primary School
0.3 miles1,135 pupils · KS2 expected standard 64% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Barking and Dagenham
Dorothy Barley Infants' School
Community school · Ages 3 to 7 · Mixed · 223 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Community school (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 223 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 360
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Headteacher
- Mrs Lauren Pearce
- Address
- Davington Road, Dagenham, RM8 2LL
- Borough
- Barking and Dagenham
- Telephone
- 02082704655
- DfE reference (URN)
- 101188
- Website
- dorothybarleyinfant.co.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
Key dates for 2027 entry
Reception (4+)
- Application deadlineFriday 15 January 2027Open
National closing date for Reception applications: Friday 15 January 2027. Apply through your home borough's coordinated scheme, not directly to the school.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
- National offer dayFriday 16 April 2027Upcoming
Primary National Offer Day: Friday 16 April 2027. Offers are released by your home borough.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
- Accept your offerDate not statedDate not stated
Accept the offer by the deadline given in your offer letter; your home borough sets the date.
Source: GOV.UK · checked 9 Oct 2026
Get a reminder before Dorothy Barley Infants' School's deadlines
One email 14, 7 and 1 day before each dated deadline we hold. No account needed.
A status ("Closes in 12 days") is shown only for a closing date we have checked, worked out from today's date, 10 October 2026. Other dates are printed as the school published them, with its own wording beside them. Dates given only as "early January" are shown as approximate and never counted down. Always confirm with the school or council.
Admissions
You apply through the council where you live, not to the school, naming up to six schools in order on one form. Every applicant on time hears on the same national offer day.
43 first-preference applications and 120 applications naming it at any preference for 45 places offered (September 2026 entry, DfE)
| Entry | Places offered | First preferences | All preferences |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 45 | 43 | 120 |
| September 2025 | 46 | 46 | 133 |
| September 2024 | 60 | 62 | 152 |
| September 2023 | 53 | 53 | 149 |
These are counts of applications and offers on national offer day. They are not a chance of getting in: places are allocated by the school's published admissions criteria, such as siblings, distance or faith.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary school applications and offers · entry years up to 2026/27 · last checked 9 October 2026
Barking and Dagenham: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 95.3% of applicants were offered their first preference and 99.3% were offered one of their preferences (2,970 applications). These are borough-wide figures, not a forecast for any school or child.
Source: Department for Education, Secondary and primary schools applications and offers 2026 · entry years 2014/15 to 2026/27 (release published 2026-06-18) · last checked 9 October 2026
Inspection
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 25 June 2025: Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection confirms or questions the previous grade; it does not set a new one.
Last overall grade: Good, given on 6 July 2016
Historic. This is the last time Ofsted gave the school a single overall grade. Overall grades were abolished for state schools in September 2024.
Source: Ofsted, Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 31 August 2026 · latest inspections as at 2026-08-31 · last checked 9 October 2026
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 18.6% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 62.9%
- Receiving SEN support
- 12.1%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 2.1%
- Girls / boys
- 48% / 52%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
Attendance and staffing
- Overall absence
- 4.7% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 10%
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 360
- Pupils on roll
- 202
Source: Department for Education, Capacity - school / Sixth form capacity - school · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · position at 1 May, 2024/25
Nearby schools
Schools covering the same ages within about a mile, by straight-line distance (not walking or travel time).
Roding Primary School
0.3 miles892 pupils · KS2 expected standard 59% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
230 pupils · KS2 expected standard 83% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Manor Junior School
0.7 miles590 pupils · KS2 expected standard 78% (2024/25)
Becontree Primary School
0.7 miles458 pupils · KS2 expected standard 53% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
The Sydney Russell School
0.8 miles2,568 pupils · Attainment 8 51.2 (2024/25)
Applications: closes in 21 days (31 Oct 2026)
Compare with similar schools
Side-by-side comparisons with the nearest schools of the same type. Sourced facts only; no winner is declared.
- Dorothy Barley Infants' School and Dorothy Barley Junior Academyunder 0.1 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Infants' School and Manor Primary School0.3 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Infants' School and Roding Primary School0.3 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Infants' School and The St Teresa Catholic Primary School0.5 miles apart