Furze Infant School

Community school·Infant school Romford, Barking and Dagenham·RM6 6ES

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Furze Infant 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%

120 first choices, 125 places

First choices per place

0.96

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

187

any preference, for 125 places

Applications from another council area

10%

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9120220.8720230.9320240.9320250.962026

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

Every child who put Furze Infant 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: 462
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

72.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

11.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,730

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Warren Junior School Romford · 0.3 mi 66.5 Henry Green Primary School Dagenham · 0.9 mi 58.2 Grafton Primary School Dagenham · 0.9 mi 39.9 Valence Primary School Dagenham · 1.0 mi 44.8 Rose Lane Primary School Romford · 1.0 mi 39.4 William Bellamy Primary School Dagenham · 1.1 mi 40.8 St Vincent's Catholic Primary School Dagenham · 1.1 mi 46.4 Five Elms Primary School Dagenham · 1.1 mi 39.6

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

Furze Infant School is a primary school serving Romford, Barking and Dagenham, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 462 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Furze Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 125 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 21.8 pupils per teacher. Furze Infant 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.