Towers Infant School
Primary · Hornchurch · RM11 1HP
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 12 May 2026 · report published 25 June 2026
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309 pupils · 94% of 330 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 2–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 6.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 9.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.towersinfant.co.uk/
- URN
- 102309
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.99 first-choice applications per place90 places offered · 89 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2012 entry) lived within 1.665 km (≈1.03 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 16% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 12 May 2026: Strong standard
- 25 November 2021: School remains Outstanding
- 1 March 2016: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.