Dorothy Barley Infants' School

State-Funded School

dorothy-barley-infants-school-barking-and-dagenham-london

LondonRegion

Barking and DagenhamLocal Authority

BarkingConstituency

RM8 2LLPostcode

5.5

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Dorothy Barley Infants' School is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 3–7, located in Barking and Dagenham, London.

The school is rated Good by Ofsted. It currently serves 223 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Yes

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Good

Early yearsprovision

Good

Ethnicity

White

46%

Asian

25%

Black

14%

Mixed

12%

Chinese

<1%

Any other group

Pupils

223

Total Pupils

53%Boys

47%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

16%

England average

27%

First language not English

66%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Primary
Age range: 3 – 7
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 223
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 25 June 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
8 Sept 2016	Good	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Good

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.