Oakdale Infants' School
0.1 miles299 pupils
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
State-funded · Primary · Redbridge
Oakdale Junior School
Community school · Ages 7 to 11 · Mixed · 357 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Community school (state-funded)
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 357 census January 2026
- Capacity
- 360
- Headteacher
- Mr Danvir Visvanathan
- Address
- Oakdale Road, Redbridge, London, E18 1JX
- Borough
- Redbridge
- Telephone
- 02089897471
- DfE reference (URN)
- 133931
- Website
- oakdalejuniors.co.uk
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.
Redbridge: Reception offers, September 2026 entry
Across the borough, 88.2% of applicants were offered their first preference and 97.8% were offered one of their preferences (3,417 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, 26 November 2024
No overall grade was given: Ofsted had stopped using one for state schools.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
Last overall grade: Good, given on 2 December 2015
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: 60% · 2023/24: 67%70%This school75%Redbridge62%England, state-funded
- % achieving the higher standard in reading, writing and maths2022/23: 14% · 2023/24: 5%9%This school16%Redbridge8%England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in reading2022/23: 107 · 2023/24: 105108This school108Redbridge106England, state-funded
- Average scaled score in maths2022/23: 105 · 2023/24: 107107This school108Redbridge105England, state-funded
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · academic year 2024/25 · 74 pupils in the cohort
Pupils and context
- Eligible for free school meals
- 31.7% January 2026
- English as an additional language
- 44.8%
- Receiving SEN support
- 11.6%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 2.7%
- Girls / boys
- 45% / 55%
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
- 4.5% 2024/25
- Persistently absent (missed 10% or more)
- 7.7%
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9 2025/26
Source: Department for Education, Absence rates by school level · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026
Places
- Places
- 360
- Pupils on roll
- 341
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).
Snaresbrook Prep School
0.5 miles89 pupils
Nightingale Primary School
0.5 miles685 pupils · KS2 expected standard 79% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Churchfields Infants' School
0.5 miles429 pupils
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Snaresbrook Primary School
0.6 miles461 pupils · KS2 expected standard 75% (2024/25)
Applications: open (15 Jan 2027)
Compare with similar schools
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