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Monteagle Primary School

Primary · Dagenham · RM9 4RB

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Strong standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Strong standardAchievement: Strong standardAttendance & behaviour: Strong standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Strong standardEarly years: Strong standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 19 April 2026

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At a glance

630 pupils · 88% of 720 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
20.6% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
36% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
9.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
9.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.monteagle.bardaglea.org.uk/
URN
130340

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 66 families named it first for 67 Reception places, 0.99 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2023 entry went to 0.786 km (≈0.49 mi); distance decided places in 6 of the 19 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2006 to 2025. At its report-card inspection on 10 February 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Strong standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.9% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.99 first-choice applications per place

67 places offered · 66 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2023 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.786 km (≈0.49 mi)

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

91 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
76%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
10%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
110
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
107
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school76%
Median of its 12 closest peers66.5%
Barking and Dagenham average68.7%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity BaseCarshalton · 17 miles awayExpected standard79%
Hargate Primary SchoolWest Bromwich · 113 miles awayOutstanding66%
Kensington Avenue Primary SchoolThornton Heath · 13 miles awayRequires improvement64%
Bearbrook Combined SchoolAylesbury · 45 miles awayGood45%
Midfield Primary SchoolOrpington · 9 miles awayOutstanding61%
Hook Lane Primary SchoolWelling · 5 miles awayGood73%
New Bradwell Primary SchoolMilton Keynes · 53 miles awayGood54%
Whitehall Primary SchoolLondon · 8 miles awayGood72%
Grove House AcademyBradford · 176 miles awayGood67%
Quarry Hill AcademyGrays · 10 miles awayOutstanding88%
The Smallberry Green Primary SchoolIsleworth · 20 miles awayGood78%
Wakefield Flanshaw Junior and Infant SchoolWakefield · 164 miles awayRequires improvement53%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Special educational needs

Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.

Provision type: Resourced provision and SEN unit.

SEN unit
36 of 36 places taken full, or over capacity
Resourced provision
0 of 0 places taken

Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

Asian Bangladeshi 20% (Barking and Dagenham 16%, England 2%) · White British 18% (Barking and Dagenham 13%, England 60%) · Any other White background 17% (Barking and Dagenham 15%, England 7%) · Black African 12% (Barking and Dagenham 16%, England 5%) · Asian Pakistani 11% (Barking and Dagenham 11%, England 5%) · Any other Asian background 4% (Barking and Dagenham 4%, England 2%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Barking and Dagenham 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black African 3% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 2% (Barking and Dagenham 3%, England 1%) · Asian Indian 2% (Barking and Dagenham 7%, England 4%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Barking and Dagenham 1%, England 1%) · Black Caribbean 1% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Barking and Dagenham 2%, England 2%) · other groups together 0%

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.9%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
12%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.15 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Barking and Dagenham: 0.75 suspensions and 0.02 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
16.6
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 12% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

23.3% of teachers took sickness absence, 1.4 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £59,865; 17.8% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2025-26)

This school£10,196
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 82% (76%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (8%) · supplies and services 6% (9%) · educational supplies 3% (4%) · bought-in professional services 2% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve -£913,985; in-year balance -£620,572

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher30.8%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications22.8%18.1%
In managerial or professional work19.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways27.7%18.1%
Residents in very good health48.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier43.4%62.3%
Social housing34.3%17.1%
Privately rented22.3%20.5%
Detached houses6.1%22.9%
Flats17.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms7.6%21.1%
Households with no car or van34.8%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01000045 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£371,000269 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£330,000–£410,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Semi-detached (15)£450,000
Terraced (212)£379,500
Flat (40)£232,500

Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (0.79 km, 2023 entry): 185 sales, median £370,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
1an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
16an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
76an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
16an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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