Most sought-after schools in Barking and Dagenham

Ordered by how many families put the school first, for each place it gave out.

This list is sorted by one number: first preferences per place. For each school it is the number of families who named it first, divided by the number of offers it made, in the newest year we hold. A higher number means more families wanted a place than there were places.

This is not a list of the best schools. It does not measure how good a school is, how happy the children are, or how well they do. It also does not tell you whether a child would get a place: that depends on where you live, the year, and the council's rules. It only shows how many people applied.

Figures from the Department for Education, applications and offers. 49 schools in Barking and Dagenham have a published per-place figure. Schools with too few places for the figure to mean anything are left off. All schools in Barking and Dagenham · How we compare schools.