Eastbury Community School, Barking
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Eastbury Community School excels at creating a happy, safe learning environment where pupils develop both academically and personally. The school offers extensive enrichment activities including residential trips, cultural visits, and projects with artists and community partners, which have earned recognition including the Healthy Schools London Gold Award and Artsmark Platinum Award. Parents can be confident their children will receive good teaching, strong pastoral support, and develop into responsible citizens prepared for their future.
Key Strengths
- Teaching is good and improving, with leaders providing effective training and holding teachers accountable for pupil progress
- Pupils make good progress overall, with outstanding progress in several secondary subjects due to highly effective subject leadership
- Excellent personal development and well-being through extensive enrichment activities, strong pastoral support, and a broad curriculum
- Sixth form provision is outstanding with highly effective teaching and excellent career preparation
- Well-resourced early years provision with children making good progress in all areas of learning
Areas for Improvement
- Increase the proportion of outstanding teaching across the school by sharing excellent practice and providing consistent subject and year group leadership
- Improve effectiveness of new inclusion leaders to ensure pupils with SEN and disabilities make better progress
- Increase uptake of languages other than French to improve English Baccalaureate qualification rates
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective - the school has alert staff, designated trained leaders, a computer system to flag at-risk pupils, and delivers safety education including knife crime, gangs, and radicalisation awareness.
Extracurricular Activities
Team-building residential trips, First World War centenary dance project, links to school in Zambia, National Holocaust Museum visits, women in construction workshop, Poet Laureate for London collaboration
Eastbury Community School is a good school that has successfully incorporated a new primary phase and provides pupils with a good overall education. Leaders and governors have ensured effective teaching and strong pupil progress, with the sixth form provision now rated as outstanding.
At a Glance
28.5%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
Yes
Sixth Form
Not Applicable
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 83% to 89%. Maths has improved from 86% to 91%. Writing has improved from 80% to 87%.
Class Sizes
21.2
Avg class size
29.8
Infant (KS1)
29.9
KS2
99
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
91%
Near capacity
2,039 pupils
2,236 capacity
197 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Barking
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Barking
Admissions Demand - Barking and Dagenham
Places available
3,540
Applications
2,982
Got 1st preference
87.0%
Got preferred school
97.8%
Secondary admissions across Barking and Dagenham (2025/26)
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SEN Provision
How many pupils have special educational needs, what types of support the school provides, and how it compares to similar schools.
Pupil Demographics
The school's pupil mix - ethnicity breakdown, free school meals eligibility, and English as an additional language. Useful context when evaluating school fit.
Teachers & Staff
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School Funding
Annual funding per pupil, total budget, pupil premium grants, and how the school's resources compare to similar schools nationally.
Pupil Absence2024/25
7.74464%
Overall absence
24.98693%
Persistent absence
1,913
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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Feeder Primary Schools
Primary schools that likely feed into this school, based on proximity
Eastbury Community School
Ripple Primary School
Manor Primary School
Manor Junior School
Woodlands Primary School
Eastbury Primary School
Northbury Primary School
St Margarets CofE Primary School
Gascoigne Primary School
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Greatfields Primary School
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