Mead Primary School
0.5 miles801 pupils · KS2 expected standard 40% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Havering
Drapers' Brookside Junior School
Academy sponsor led · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 234 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Academy sponsor led (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 234 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 240
- Executive Principal
- Mrs Angela Winch
- Trust
- DRAPERS' MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
- Address
- Dagnam Park Drive, Harold Hill, Romford, RM3 9DJ
- Borough
- Havering
- Telephone
- 01708371331
- DfE reference (URN)
- 140818
- Website
- drapersbrookside.com
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
Year 3 (7+)
- Application deadlineFriday 15 January 2027Open
Closing date for Year 3 (infant to junior transfer) applications: Friday 15 January 2027, through your home borough's coordinated scheme.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · checked 9 Oct 2026
- National offer dayFriday 16 April 2027Upcoming
Offer day for junior school places: Friday 16 April 2027, with primary National Offer Day.
Source: Your borough's admissions page · 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 Drapers' Brookside Junior 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.
Havering: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 91.5% of applicants were offered their first preference and 98.6% were offered one of their preferences (3,066 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, 26 January 2023: School remains Good
An ungraded inspection confirms or questions the previous grade; it does not set a new one.
Last overall grade: Good, given on 11 July 2017
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
Results
Key stage 2 (end of primary), 2024/25
- % meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 47% · 2023/24: 32%47%This school65%Havering62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 5% · 2023/24: 5%7%This school11%Havering8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 102 · 2023/24: 99102This school106Havering106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 102 · 2023/24: 100100This school105Havering105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 60 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 47.4% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 35.3%
- Receiving SEN support
- 23.5%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 2.9%
- Girls / boys
- 47% / 53%
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
- 7.1% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 21.5%
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 240
- Pupils on roll
- 235
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).
Broadford Primary School
0.5 miles654 pupils · KS2 expected standard 49% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Drapers' Pyrgo Priory School
0.6 miles277 pupils · KS2 expected standard 46% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Edullect Academy Independent School
0.7 miles41 pupils · £2,483 a term (2026-27)
St Ursula's Catholic Primary School
0.7 miles423 pupils · KS2 expected standard 63% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Drapers' Maylands Primary School
0.7 miles348 pupils · KS2 expected standard 77% (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.
- Drapers' Brookside Junior School and Drapers' Brookside Infant Schoolunder 0.1 miles apart
- Drapers' Brookside Junior School and Mead Primary School0.5 miles apart
- Drapers' Brookside Junior School and Broadford Primary School0.5 miles apart
- Drapers' Brookside Junior School and Drapers' Pyrgo Priory School0.6 miles apart