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Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Community school
Beresford Road, London E17 4LN · chapelendinfants.com · 020 8527 1388
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Sept 2022
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Waltham Forest Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 249
- 92% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 24.1%
- First language not English
- 47.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Waltham Forest Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 57 families put the school first and 58 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 58 | 57 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 49 | 46 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 58 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 65 | 59 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 67 | 62 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 15 September 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 14 Sept 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2011
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Feb 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (41 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 41
- 13% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 68% who raised concerns
based on the 24% who had a child bullied