Fairlop Primary School, Ilford
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Fairlop Primary School excels at creating a safe, caring environment where children are deeply respected and behave beautifully. The school has outstanding leadership that carefully checks teaching quality and ensures all pupils, including those who need extra support, make good progress in reading, writing and maths. Children benefit from a rich curriculum with memorable experiences, excellent art work, visiting speakers, trips, and a wide range of clubs and sports including golf, tag rugby and swimming.
Key Strengths
- Outstanding leadership and management with highly ambitious governors and school leaders who quickly tackle weaknesses
- Pupils behave extremely well and feel safe and exceptionally well cared for by staff
- Outstanding early years provision with children achieving extremely well
- Consistently good teaching with some outstanding lessons, enabling all groups including those with special needs to make good progress
- Excellent spiritual, moral, social and cultural development with well-developed social skills and strong sense of right and wrong
Areas for Improvement
- Most-able pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, are not always challenged sufficiently to achieve higher levels
- Teachers need to provide more challenging activities to ensure higher attainment for the most-able students
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is robust and effective; staff and governors are well trained in child protection, all required checks on adults working with children are in place, and pupils feel very safe at school.
Extracurricular Activities
After-school clubs, lunchtime activities, visiting speakers, trips to places of interest, golf, tag rugby, swimming, sports tournaments
Fairlop Primary School is a good school with outstanding leadership and management that has brought about significant improvements since the previous inspection. The headteacher and skilled leaders have created an environment where pupils behave exceptionally well, achieve good progress in reading, writing and mathematics, and benefit from an outstanding early years provision.
At a Glance
20.5%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
44 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 83% to 89%. Maths has remained stable at around 88%. Writing has remained stable at around 78%.
Class Sizes
28.9
Avg class size
29.9
Infant (KS1)
29.7
KS2
23
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
108%
Over capacity
681 pupils
630 capacity
51 places over capacity
Area Demand Pressure - Ilford
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Ilford
Admissions Demand - Redbridge
Places available
4,274
Applications
3,495
Got 1st preference
88.8%
Got preferred school
98.3%
Primary admissions across Redbridge (2025/26)
Inspection History(7)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
4.73793%
Overall absence
10.42403%
Persistent absence
566
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Fairlop Primary School
New Rush Hall School
King Solomon High School
Redbridge Alternative Provision
Ilford County High School
Caterham High School
St John's RC School (Essex)
West Hatch High School
Luxborough Court School
Forest Academy
Chigwell School
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