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Thames View Infants

Ofsted: Outstanding · June 2024State primary · 3 to 7Mixed403 pupils
Bastable Avenue, Barking, IG11 0LG · Barking and Dagenham
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET A PLACE? · RECEPTION 2027

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Summary

The key facts, in one place
Inspection
Outstanding, June 2024
Getting in
Oversubscribed
Size
403 pupils; 120 places a year; classes of 27
Run by
Tvi Learning
Type
Academy converter
Ages
3 to 7 · Mixed
Ofsted, June 2024The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
Quality of educationOutstanding
Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
Leadership and managementOutstanding
Strengths, and things to check
  • Sessions missed: 3.6%, against 5.5% in Barking and Dagenham.
  • Persistently absent: 8.0%, against 15.8% in Barking and Dagenham.
  • Oversubscribed: 1.1 first choices for each place (Reception 2026).
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At a glance

Against Barking and Dagenham and England
This schoolBarking and DagenhamEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
3.6%
Better than Barking and Dagenham
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
8.0%
Better than Barking and Dagenham
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
0.3
Better than Barking and Dagenham
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
27.3
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
16%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
24.4
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.1
More sought after than Barking and Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Guide: what these measures mean →

Overview

Getting in

  • 130 families put it first for 120 places; 120 of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Outstanding Ofsted · inspected 25 June 2024
  • An infant school has no published results: its pupils sit the key stage 2 tests at the junior or primary school.

Daily life

  • Absence: 3.6% of sessions missed; 8.0% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 4.6% and 9.6% DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
  • Suspensions: 0 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 1); 0 permanent exclusions DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
  • Classes average 27.3 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 24.4 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 100 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 17 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 2 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 18.6 µg/m³, PM2.5 9.5 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

Who runs it

  • Tvi Learning DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined September 2012
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 September 2012 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Thames View Infants' School (URN 101200) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 September 2012
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. How places are offered →

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception2025120195———
Reception2024120210———
Reception2023120214———
Reception2022120214———

Source: Council offer-day figures: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2022 to 2025. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception2026120130219120
Reception2025104101196101
Reception2024108106208106
Reception2023114112202112
Reception2022109106215106
Reception2021120121217119
Reception2020120116213116
Reception2019105105194105
Reception2018119120232117
Reception2017120116252116

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2014 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
25 June 2024Graded inspectionOutstanding

Source: Ofsted, 2024.

Daily life

Absence

YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/253.6%2.9%0.7%8.0%0.4%
2023/243.8%2.9%0.9%8.8%0.0%
2022/234.5%3.8%0.7%5.3%0.0%
Schools with a similar intake4.6%9.6%

Source: DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25. Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (10-20%), the median of 4894 schools.

Suspensions and exclusions

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/250.30.3%10
2023/241.00.8%41
2022/230.00.0%00
Schools with a similar intake0.8

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size27.32025/26
Classes over 30 pupils0.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher24.4November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus100

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20255
20241
20235
20224
20212

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 2 serious and 0 fatal in all; 7 involved a pedestrian, 1 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO218.62024
PM1016.12024
PM259.52024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals16%2025/26
First language other than English86%2025/26
SEN support29%2025/26
Education, health and care plan3.2%2025/26
Girls47%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Tvi Learning DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined September 2012
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 September 2012 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Thames View Infants' School (URN 101200) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 September 2012
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Barking and the Barking and Dagenham league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. All sources.