Seven Kings School
All-through school · Redbridge
Ley Street, Ilford, IG2 7BT
About the school
- Type of school
- Community school, run by the council
- Ages
- 4 to 18
- Boys or girls
- Boys and girls
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery classes
- No
- Website
- https://www.sevenkings.school
- Telephone
- 020 8554 8935
- School number (URN)
- 102856
From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.
How big the school is
In 2024 this school had 2,240 places and 2,197 children on roll.
43 places were unfilled, which is 2% of the school.
In 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 the school had 2,117 children on roll on average, against 2,197 in 2024.
Its places have grown from 1,321 in 2009 to 2,240 in 2024.
Places are the whole school added up, every year group together. That is not the number of places a school offers to new children in one year.
Source: Department for Education school capacity collection.
Children in each year group
As counted on one day in January 2026, the most recent school census. These are children, not places.
Children in each year group at Seven Kings School
| Year group | Children |
|---|---|
| Reception | 118 |
| Year 1 | 119 |
| Year 2 | 119 |
| Year 3 | 119 |
| Year 4 | 120 |
| Year 5 | 121 |
| Year 6 | 120 |
| Year 7 | 180 |
| Year 8 | 179 |
| Year 9 | 179 |
| Year 10 | 180 |
| Year 11 | 177 |
| Year 12 | 228 |
| Year 13 | 230 |
This is not a list of spare places. Places per year group are not published, and the count is from January. Children join and leave all year, so a year group that looked two under in January can be full by March.
If you are moving into the area and need a place during the school year, ask Redbridge, which handles admissions for this school. They hold the up-to-date position, which this page does not.
Who decides who gets a place
Redbridge sets the admission rules for this school, as it does for all its community and voluntary controlled schools.
Look for Redbridge's admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them.
Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.
How to apply
Applications for a place starting in September 2027 close on 15 January 2027, the date the School Admissions Code sets for every council in England.
Councils send every offer for primary school places on the same day, 16 April 2027 or the next working day.
You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's primary school application on GOV.UK.
To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: https://www.sevenkings.school. Telephone: 020 8554 8935.
Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.
How many families applied
Children usually start at this school in Reception.
The government publishes application figures only for the years when most children in England start a new school: Reception and Year 7, and Year 9 at some upper schools. So we have no figures for how many families applied for this school's main intake.
The figures that are published are for the few children who joined in Year 7: in 2026, 259 families putting it first and 53 offers. They do not show how popular the school is, so we do not use them to compare it with other schools or with its own past.
Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the January school census for the size of each year group.
Ofsted
Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 24 April 2025
Improved significantly
Ofsted's report for this school
Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.
If you are refused a place
In 2026, families in Redbridge lodged 82 appeals about a primary school place.
55 of them were heard by a panel and 4 succeeded, which is about 7 in every 100 heard.
The other 27 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.
Reception is an infant class, and the law caps an infant class at 30 children. A panel hearing an appeal about an infant class can only agree in three situations: the place was refused by mistake, the admission rules were not applied properly, or the decision was one no reasonable council would have made. It cannot simply decide that the child should have the place.
Of the 49 infant class appeals heard in Redbridge in 2026, 4 succeeded.
This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.
These count appeals about every school in Redbridge, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.
Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.
Waiting lists
Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.
A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.
Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.
From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.
Children with special educational needs
In January 2026, 102 of the 2,189 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 5 in every 100. Across schools in England the middle figure is 4 in every 100.
A further 193 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 9 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.
A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application.
This school runs a resourced provision: teaching for children with special educational needs, on the same site as the rest of the school.
The published figures do not say which kinds of need it is set up for, or how many children it takes. Ask the school or Redbridge.
Source: Department for Education, special educational needs in England, January 2026 census.
Who goes to this school
In January 2026, 454 of the 2,189 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 21 in every 100.
English was not the first language for 92 in every 100 children here.
This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.
This matters when reading results. Across the 15,153 schools we hold 2024 key stage 2 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 70% reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 48%.
Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published.
Source: Department for Education school census, January 2026. Free school meal eligibility is counted for every pupil on roll.
Exam results
Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.
Key stage 2: what these numbers are made of
Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 70% in 2022 to 87% in 2023, a difference of 17 points.
Year 6 had 120 children, so one child is worth about 0.8 percentage points and that difference is about 21 children.
Half of schools in England move by 13 points or more across the same three years.
Key stage 4: what these numbers are made of
Getting grade 4 or above in English and maths.
Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 86.9% in 2024 to 90.9% in 2023, a difference of 4 points.
The year group had 176 children, so one child is worth about 0.6 percentage points and that difference is about 7 children.
Half of schools in England move by 6 points or more across the same three years, so movement on this scale is ordinary rather than a sign of anything.
| Year | Attainment 8 | Progress 8 | Grade 4+ English & maths | EBacc grade 4+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 57.30 | - | 86.9% | 26.1% |
| 2023/24 | 64.10 | 1.12 likely between 0.90 and 1.33 |
90.9% | 34.7% |
| 2022/23 | 61.70 | 0.98 likely between 0.77 and 1.19 |
88.3% | 27.9% |
Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.
| Year | Expected standard in reading, writing & maths | Higher standard | Average reading score | Average maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 80.0% | 22.0% | 109.0 | 111.0 |
| 2023/24 | 87.0% | 18.0% | 108.0 | 110.0 |
| 2022/23 | 70.0% | 12.0% | 107.0 | 107.0 |
Teachers staying and leaving
These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.
The share of teachers who left, each year
Counted as full-time jobs rather than people, and counting a move to another state school as leaving this one.
| Census year | Teachers (FTE) | Still there a year later | Moved to another state school | Left state schools | Left in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 129.4 | 117.4 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 9.3% |
| 2023/24 | 135.0 | 110.8 | 9.0 | 15.2 | 17.9% |
| 2022/23 | 129.1 | 110.3 | 8.8 | 10.0 | 14.6% |
| 2021/22 | 122.2 | 109.8 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 10.1% |
| 2020/21 | 115.2 | 104.2 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 9.5% |
| 2019/20 | 107.8 | 99.8 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 7.4% |
This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.
Catchment area
Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.
Where it is, and schools nearby
The 6 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Seven Kings School.
- Ark Isaac Newton Academy: 0.9 km (0.6 miles) south-east, Ilford
- Loxford School: 2.1 km (1.3 miles) south, Ilford
- Atam Academy: 2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east, Romford
- Eastbury Community School: 2.9 km (1.8 miles) south, Barking
- The Sydney Russell School: 3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east, Dagenham
- Langdon Academy: 4.2 km (2.6 miles) south, London
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Seven Kings School
- All schools in Redbridge
- Schools in the IG2 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase, address, contact details and how it is run
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - GOV.UK: apply for a school place. Where to find your council's primary school application. Link checked 23 September 2026
- Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 14 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2026 intakes
Retrieved 14 September 2026 - Department for Education: school pupils and their characteristics. Children in each year group, January 2026 census
- Department for Education: school capacity. Places and pupils on roll, 2009 to 2024
- Department for Education: key stage 4 performance. Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026
Using this information
This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.
Figures current as of 14 September 2026.
This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.