Blue Gate Fields Infants' School

Community school·Infant school London, Tower Hamlets·E1 0EH

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Blue Gate Fields Infants' School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

91%

81 first choices, 85 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

145

any preference, for 85 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9120220.8920230.8920240.9420250.952026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Blue Gate Fields Infants' School yet. Tower Hamlets does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 328
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

29.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

97.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

21.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.6%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

17.6%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

23.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,438

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Blue Gate Fields Junior School London · 0.0 mi 79.7 St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School London · 0.2 mi 78.4 Bigland Green Primary School London · 0.2 mi 74.1 St Mary and St Michael Primary School London · 0.2 mi 62.2 Marion Richardson Primary School London · 0.4 mi 47.4 St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School London · 0.5 mi 55.0 Harry Gosling Primary School London · 0.6 mi 47.2 Stepney Park Primary School London · 0.6 mi 61.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Blue Gate Fields Infants' School is a primary school serving London, Tower Hamlets, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 328 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

91% of the families who made Blue Gate Fields Infants' School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. Blue Gate Fields Infants' School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.