Free schools · Primary
Barking · IG11 7BL · Barking and Dagenham
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.1 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 131775
Gascoigne Primary School
Community school · Barking · IG11 7DR
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
1,115
Local authority
Barking and Dagenham
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Barking, Barking and Dagenham, 1,115 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 27%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 131775
Location
- Address
- Gascoigne Road
- Postcode
- IG11 7DR
- Town
- Barking
- County
- Essex
- Local authority
- Barking and Dagenham
- District
- Barking and Dagenham
- Constituency
- Barking
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,115
- Boys / girls
- 569 / 546
- School capacity
- 1,260
- Capacity fill
- 1,115 / 1,260 (88%)
- Free school meals
- 27%
- FSM pupils
- 281
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr James Fox and Mrs Anre Buchner
- Telephone
- 02082704291
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
School remains Good
Inspection date
2022-09-21
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 60%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 9%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0