The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Cranbrook Primary School

URN 131625 · Primary · Community school · Redbridge

The Drive, Ilford, IG1 3PS

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 79 families named Cranbrook Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 88 offers.

That is 0.90 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 21% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 21% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.84 in 2021–2022 and 0.88 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 79 251 88 0.90
2024 93 295 109 0.85
2023 110 337 117 0.94
2022 105 312 117 0.90
2021 87 320 111 0.78
2020 97 331 116 0.84
2019 93 343 119 0.78
2018 103 374 120 0.86
2017 130 414 119 1.09
2016 146 490 120 1.22
2015 106 475 117 0.91
2014 122 471 120 1.02

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

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, 19 May 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

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 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 70.0% 5.0% 107.0 106.0
2023/24 64.0% 8.0% 107.0 106.0
2022/23 75.0% 9.0% 107.0 108.0

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.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 37.2 33.6 0.8 2.8 9.7%
2023/24 40.4 30.6 3.8 6.0 24.3%
2022/23 39.9 35.8 3.0 1.1 10.3%
2021/22 42.7 38.5 1.0 3.2 9.8%
2020/21 42.6 41.6 0.0 1.0 2.3%
2019/20 41.2 40.0 1.2 0.0 2.9%

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

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Cranbrook Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.