Area guide · Tower Hamlets
Living in Tower Hamlets with children
Tower Hamlets, Tower Hamlets. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 311,072 people in 121,056 households; 27.0% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
98schools in Tower Hamlets
£760ktypical semi, 12 months
158crimes a year per 1,000 people
79%gigabit broadband
Schools
98 schools: 66 state primary, 18 state secondary, 3 sixth form or college, 11 privateTower Hamlets on the schools map →Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Tower Hamlets 69%Ofsted
Secondary: attainment 8, 2026 results (DfE) · red mark: Tower Hamlets 48.0Ofsted
3Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolSecondary · Top 18% (3/17) · 54.0Ofsted report card
Every school in Tower Hamlets, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (66)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigland Green Primary School | School remains Outstanding | 1st (1/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.334 miles (2026) |
| Canary Wharf Primary, Glenworth | Good | Top 4% (2/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Peter's London Docks CofE Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 5% (3/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Stewart Headlam Primary School | Outstanding | Top 7% (4/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| William Davis Primary School | Good | Top 8% (5/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Columbia Primary School | Good | Top 10% (6/64) in Tower Hamlets | 1.268 miles (2025) |
| Mayflower Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 11% (7/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.32 miles (2026) |
| The Clara Grant Primary School | School remains Good | Top 13% (8/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Globe Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 15% (9/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.549 miles (2025) |
| Canary Wharf Primary, East Ferry | Good | Top 16% (10/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Virginia Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 18% (11/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Bygrove Primary School | Outstanding | Top 19% (12/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.355 miles (2026) |
| Hague Primary School | School remains Good | Top 21% (13/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Osmani Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 22% (14/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Solebay Primary - A Paradigm Academy | Outstanding | Top 24% (15/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Manorfield Primary School | Good | Top 25% (16/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Hermitage Primary School | Requires improvement | Top 27% (17/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Stebon Primary School | Outstanding | Top 27% (17/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Anne's and Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | Top 30% (19/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Stepney Park Primary School | Good | Top 32% (20/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Bangabandhu Primary School | Good | Top 33% (21/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.558 miles (2026) |
| Blue Gate Fields Junior School | Good | Top 35% (22/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Mary and St Michael Primary School | School remains Good | Top 36% (23/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Old Palace Primary School | Good | Top 38% (24/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Culloden Primary - A Paradigm Academy | Outstanding | Top 40% (25/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Sir William Burrough Primary School | Good | Top 41% (26/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Agnes RC Primary School | Outstanding | Top 43% (27/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Ben Jonson Primary School | Good | Top 44% (28/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mowlem Primary School | School remains Outstanding | Top 46% (29/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| John Scurr Primary School | Good | Top 47% (30/64) in Tower Hamlets | 1.23 miles (2026) |
| St Paul's Whitechapel Church of England Primary School | Good | Top 49% (31/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Christ Church CofE School | School remains Good | Top 50% (32/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Lansbury Lawrence Primary School | Outstanding | (33/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.998 miles (2025) |
| Thomas Buxton Primary School | School remains Outstanding | (34/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.688 miles (2026) |
| Woolmore Primary School | Outstanding | (35/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Wellington Primary School | Outstanding | (36/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Cayley Primary School | School remains Good | (37/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Kobi Nazrul Primary School | Improved significantly | (38/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.497 miles (2025) |
| Lawdale Junior School | School remains Good | (39/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Marner Primary School | School remains Good | (40/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Edmund's Catholic School | School remains Good | (41/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Halley Primary School | Good | (42/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Malmesbury Primary School | School remains Good | (43/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Old Ford Primary - A Paradigm Academy | Outstanding | (45/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Cyril Jackson Primary School | Good | (46/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Bonner Primary School | Good | (47/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.303 miles (2026) |
| St John's Church of England Primary School | Ofsted report card | (48/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | Good | (48/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Saviour's Church of England Primary School | Standards maintained | (50/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Marion Richardson Primary School | Outstanding | (51/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | (52/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Cubitt Town Primary School | Good | (53/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.819 miles (2025) |
| Harbinger Primary School | Good | (54/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | (55/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Olga Primary School | Ofsted report card | (56/64) in Tower Hamlets | 0.605 miles (2025) |
| Stepney Greencoat Church of England Primary School | Good | (57/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Chisenhale Primary School | Good | (58/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Harry Gosling Primary School | School remains Good | (59/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Arnhem Wharf Primary School | School remains Good | (60/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry Canon Barnett Primary Academy | Ofsted report card | (61/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Paul With St Luke CofE Primary Federation | Standards maintained | (62/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Seven Mills Primary School | Good | (63/64) in Tower Hamlets | 1.908 miles (2026) |
| St Elizabeth Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | (64/64) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Blue Gate Fields Infants' School | Standards maintained | — | 0.364 miles (2026) |
| Elizabeth Selby Infants' School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary School | Good | — | 0.631 miles (2025) |
State secondary schools (18)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swanlea School | Outstanding | 1st (1/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry School for Girls | Outstanding | Top 12% (2/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School | Ofsted report card | Top 18% (3/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Central Foundation Girls' School | Ofsted report card | Top 24% (4/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| St Paul's Way Trust School | Good | Top 30% (5/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Canary Wharf Secondary | Requires improvement | Top 36% (6/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry Stepney Green Mathematics and Computing College | Ofsted report card | Top 42% (7/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| London Enterprise Academy | Good | Top 48% (8/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Oaklands School | Ofsted report card | (9/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Morpeth School | Good | (10/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| George Green's School | School remains Good | (11/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Wapping High School | Good | (12/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Langdon Park Community School | Ofsted report card | (13/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry Academy Shoreditch | Good | (14/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Bishop Challoner Catholic School | Good | (15/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Bow School | School remains Good | (16/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry UTC | Good | (17/17) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Mulberry Academy London Dock | — | — | — |
Sixth forms and colleges (3)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| East London Arts & Music | Outstanding | (10/16) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| New City College | Outstanding | (12/16) in Tower Hamlets | — |
| Workers' Educational Association | Good | — | — |
Private schools (11)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Mizan School | — | — | — |
| Buttercup Primary School | — | — | — |
| Daffodil Preparatory School | — | — | — |
| Darul Hadis Latifiah | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Faraday School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards not met | — | — |
| Gatehouse School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
| Jamiatul Ummah School | — | — | — |
| London East Academy | — | — | — |
| London Islamic School | — | — | — |
| Madani Secondary Girls' School | — | — | — |
| Mazahirul Uloom London School | — | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)Detachedtoo few sales
Semi-detached£760,000
Terraced£832,000
Flat or maisonette£445,000
The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (3 detached, 9 semi-detached, 176 terraced, 1624 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Tower Hamlets. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Tower Hamlets →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)3railway stations within 2 km: Limehouse Rail Station (0.4 miles); Limehouse DLR Station (0.4 miles); Stepney Green Underground Station (0.5 miles)
74bus stops within 1 km of the town centre
Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 79% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 94%, on average across the 3,658 postcodes in E1, E14, E2. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published prices79registered nurseries and pre-schools
£42 to £134a day, where 13 publish a day rate (the middle £104)
What Ofsted found: 5 outstanding; 1 strong or better in every area; 63 good, or expected standard; 2 requires improvement; 8 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £9.03 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 79 in Tower Hamlets.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 19 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Tower Hamlets
The next dates for families applyingSecondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027
Application deadlines and offer days: Tower Hamlets.
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