Dorothy Barley Infants' School

Community school·Infant school Barking and Dagenham·RM8 2LL

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Dorothy Barley 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

100%

43 first choices, 45 places

First choices per place

0.96

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

120

any preference, for 45 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9920221.0020231.0320241.0020250.962026

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

Every child who put Dorothy Barley Infants' School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 240
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

15.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

62.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

12.1%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

15.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,151

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Dorothy Barley Junior Academy Dagenham · 0.1 mi 40.6 Manor Primary School Dagenham · 0.4 mi 54.4 The St Teresa Catholic Primary School Dagenham · 0.4 mi 69.1 Roding Primary School Dagenham · 0.5 mi 44.2 Manor Junior School Barking · 0.7 mi 61.2 Becontree Primary School Dagenham · 0.7 mi 43.8 The Sydney Russell School Dagenham · 0.7 mi 62.1 Monteagle Primary School Dagenham · 0.8 mi 61.1

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

Dorothy Barley Infants' School is a primary school serving Barking and Dagenham, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 240 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Dorothy Barley Infants' School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 43 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 20.5 pupils per teacher. Dorothy Barley 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.