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Blue Gate Fields Infants' School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Tower Hamlets, E1 0EH · Tower Hamlets local authority

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

Getting in
74/81
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
336 pupils
124% of its 270 places
Free school meals
27%
27 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Blue Gate Fields Infants' School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 336 pupils for 270 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 91% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (74 of 81)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E1 0) sold for a median £425,000; Tower Hamlets’s is £500,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Blue Gate Fields Infants' School?

91% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

81
families put it first for September 2026
85
places offered
91%
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: 2020 (8), 2021 (8), 2022 (3), 2025 (2), 2026 (7). 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
Blue Gate Fields Infants'
0.95 per place
91% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

328 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
21.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
97.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
29.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

No letter for Blue Gate Fields 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: Standards maintained, October 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Blue Gate Fields Infants' School

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

Home prices in E1 0, the school’s postcode sector

Tower Hamlets property prices →
£425,000
median sale, 115 sales in 36 months · Tower Hamlets £500,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025E1 0Tower Hamlets
E1 0Tower Hamlets

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£700K
Flat
£400K
E1 0Tower Hamlets

Homes in E1 0 sell for a little under 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

79 state schools
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ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Tower Hamlets, E1 0EH

Blue Gate Fields Infants' School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Blue Gate Fields Infants' School?

For September 2026, 81 families put Blue Gate Fields Infants' School first and 74 of them were offered a place; 85 places were offered in all.

What is Blue Gate Fields Infants' School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).

How much do houses cost near Blue Gate Fields Infants' School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E1 0, sold for a median £425,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (115 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.