Furze Infant School
Primary · Community school · Mixed · Barking and Dagenham
Bennett Road, Romford, RM6 6ES
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headline score
Ranking (England)
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No ranked results
Ofsted
School remains Good
No graded inspection
Application demand
100%
1st preference success · Not oversubscribed
Attendance
94.5%
17.8% persistently absent
At a glance
Pupils on roll
452
Capacity used
Nearly full96%
472 places
GCSE rank (England)
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KS2 rank (England)
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Application demand
Primary entry · official council applications and offers
100%
1st preference success rate
110 of 110 families who put it first got an offer
118
Places offered
188
Total applications
1.6
Applications per place
| Preference (Sept 2025 entry) | Applications | Offers | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st preference | 110 | 110 | ● 100% |
| 2nd preference | 44 | 7 | ● 16% |
| 3rd preference | 14 | 1 | ● 7% |
| Later preferences (4th–6th) | 20 | 0 | ● 0% |
| Total | 188 | 118 | 63% |
1st preference success by year
Barking and Dagenham lets families list 6 preferences. 22 applications came from outside the council area (5 offered). Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Offers are made on each school's admissions criteria (e.g. siblings, distance, faith), so check the school's policy.
Details
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Headteacher
- Mairead Pryor
- Address
- Bennett Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, RM6 6ES
- Phone
- 02082704420
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- Ward / constituency
- Whalebone · Dagenham and Rainham
- Area
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 101203
Pupils
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free school meals | 14% | — | — |
| English as additional language | 37% | — | — |
| SEN support | 10% | — | — |
Local deprivation (IDACI quintile 4 of 5)
1 = least deprived area, 5 = most deprived. Context only.
452 pupils · 472 places. Intake figures describe the school's community — they aren't good or bad.
Ofsted inspections
- 24
17 July 2024
Ungraded inspection
School remains Good
Attendance
2024/2025 school year · 304 pupils
Attendance
94.5%
Share of sessions attended · England 94.5%
Overall absence
5.5%
Sessions missed, any reason · England 5.5%
Persistent absence
17.8%
Pupils missing 10%+ of school · England 14.6%
Severe absence
1.0%
Pupils missing 50%+ of school · England 2.3%
Unauthorised absence
1.4%
Absences the school didn't approve
Persistent absence by year
Source: Department for Education, pupil absence by school (pupils aged 5–15). Lower absence is better. England figures are approximate 2023/24 averages.
House prices near the school
Typical sold prices (Land Registry) within 1 km, last 12 months.
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Source: Get Information About Schools and the DfE school and college performance tables (2023-2024); Oxbridge figures from the University of Cambridge's admissions by UCAS apply centre (Oxford doesn't publish per-school figures). Read the method.