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Elizabeth Selby Infants' School

PrimaryAges 2–7Community

Tower Hamlets, E2 6PP · Tower Hamlets local authority

Tower Hamlets’s School Grade A better than 88% of towns in England

Getting in
50/50
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
258 pupils
93% of its 277 places
Free school meals
40%
40 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Elizabeth Selby Infants' School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 40% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (50 of 50)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E2 6) sold for a median £550,000; Tower Hamlets’s is £500,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Elizabeth Selby Infants' School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

50
families put it first for September 2026
51
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (11), 2024 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Tower Hamlets council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Tower Hamlets council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Tower Hamlets, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.67 per place
60% got their first choice
1.59 per place
63% got their first choice
1.42 per place
68% got their first choice
1.31 per place
75% got their first choice
1.14 per place
75% got their first choice
1.12 per place
89% got their first choice
1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.05 per place
78% got their first choice
1.04 per place
93% got their first choice
Elizabeth Selby Infants'
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

265 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
18.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
8.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
94.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
49.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for Elizabeth Selby Infants' School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Elizabeth Selby Infants' School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in E2 6, the school’s postcode sector

Tower Hamlets property prices →
£550,000
median sale, 193 sales in 36 months · Tower Hamlets £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E2 6Tower Hamlets
E2 6Tower Hamlets

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£836K
Flat
£500K
E2 6Tower Hamlets

Homes in E2 6 sell for a little over Tower Hamlets’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

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ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Tower Hamlets, E2 6PP

Elizabeth Selby Infants' School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Elizabeth Selby Infants' School?

For September 2026, 50 families put Elizabeth Selby Infants' School first and all of them were offered a place; 51 places were offered in all.

What is Elizabeth Selby Infants' School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Elizabeth Selby Infants' School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E2 6, sold for a median £550,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (193 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Tower Hamlets’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.