Manor Primary School
0.2 miles1,135 pupils · KS2 expected standard 64% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Barking and Dagenham
Dorothy Barley Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 294 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 294 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 457
- Head
- Miss Cathy Leicester
- Trust
- REACH2 ACADEMY TRUST
- Address
- Ivinghoe Road, Dagenham, RM8 2NB
- Borough
- Barking and Dagenham
- Telephone
- 02082704962
- DfE reference (URN)
- 140687
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 2026-10-07 · last checked 9 October 2026
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.
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 graded inspection, 28 March 2023: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Good
Ofsted stopped giving state schools a single overall grade in September 2024. This grade dates from the inspection shown; it is not a current rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
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
Results
Key stage 2 (end of primary), 2024/25
- % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 57% · 2023/24: 61%57%This school67%Barking and Dagenham62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 1% · 2023/24: 4%3%This school8%Barking and Dagenham8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 104 · 2023/24: 104103This school106Barking and Dagenham106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 102 · 2023/24: 103101This school106Barking and Dagenham105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 63 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 29.9% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 55.3%
- Receiving SEN support
- 15.7%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 3.7%
- Girls / boys
- 50% / 50%
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
- 6.1% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 19.1%
- Pupils per teacher
- 21 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 480
- Pupils on roll
- 293
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
0.4 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)
Becontree Primary School
0.7 miles458 pupils · KS2 expected standard 53% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Manor Junior School
0.7 miles590 pupils · KS2 expected standard 78% (2024/25)
Mayespark Primary School
0.7 miles555 pupils · KS2 expected standard 65% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
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 Junior Academy and Dorothy Barley Infants' Schoolunder 0.1 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Junior Academy and Manor Primary School0.2 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Junior Academy and Roding Primary School0.4 miles apart
- Dorothy Barley Junior Academy and The St Teresa Catholic Primary School0.5 miles apart