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Daubeney Primary School

Community school in London, E5 0EG, taking ages 2 to 11, 382 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Nov 2023
6.6 mi Admitted from, 2024/25
74% Full
83.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2024/25, the furthest child offered a place lived 6.6 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 6.6 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2024/25.

Daubeney Primary School: 6.6 miles, 2024/25 Gainsborough Primary School: 8.33 miles, 2024/25, published by Hackney

This is not a catchment area. 6.6 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Daubeney Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

One published year so far: 2024/25, from Hackney. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Hackney, published admission distances, 2024/25

Where Daubeney Primary School and Gainsborough Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Gainsborough Primary School admitted from 8.33 miles in 2024/25, published by Hackney. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is EC3V at £249,500; the dearest shown, E7, £485,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.

DistrictAreaFrom Daubeney Primary SchoolFrom Gainsborough Primary SchoolMedian sold price
EC3V City of London 3.4 mi 3.4 mi £249,500 38 sales
N17 Haringey 3.4 mi 4.1 mi £355,000 83 sales
E16 Newham 4.1 mi 3.4 mi £395,000 67 sales
E3 Tower Hamlets 1.8 mi 1.2 mi £400,000 81 sales
E13 Newham 3.3 mi 2.6 mi £400,000 74 sales
E1W Tower Hamlets 3.1 mi 2.9 mi £400,000 90 sales
E12 Newham 3.9 mi 3.4 mi £435,000 83 sales
SE16 Southwark 3.9 mi 3.6 mi £456,000 55 sales
E15 Newham 2.0 mi 1.3 mi £463,500 95 sales
EC4N City of London 3.6 mi 3.6 mi £470,000 5 sales
EC4R City of London 3.7 mi 3.7 mi £470,000 5 sales
E7 Newham 2.8 mi 2.3 mi £485,000 73 sales

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register. Only the cheapest 12 are listed. 5 more districts fall inside both without enough recorded sales to rank: EC2M, N1P, EC3R, EC2V, EC4M.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Hackney, 12 of 107 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (11.2%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Daubeney Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Kingsmead Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.63 mi 2024/25 0.1 mi
Mandeville Primary School Both in reach Primary 2.58 mi 2024/25 0.3 mi
Rushmore Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.47 mi 2024/25 0.4 mi
Berger Primary School Both in reach Primary 3.66 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
Millfields Community School Primary No limit 2024/25 0.6 mi
Gainsborough Primary School Both in reach Primary 8.33 mi 2024/25 0.7 mi

The distance as a picture

Daubeney Primary School catchment area map: the 6.6 mile admission distance, 2024/25 and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 382 pupils in 519 places (74% full)
Local authorityHackney

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 26 November 2023
Meeting the expected standard 83.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 83.0%
2023/24 72.0%
2022/23 64.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Daubeney Primary School

Girls and boys46.1% girls, 53.9% boys
English as an additional language48.7% of pupils
Free school meals50.0% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Daubeney Primary School

Cheapest district inside the 6.6 miles: E3, median £400,000. Dearest: E8, £825,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
E3 Tower Hamlets 1.8 mi £400,000 81 sales
E15 Newham 2.0 mi £463,500 95 sales
E2 Tower Hamlets 1.9 mi £495,000 89 sales
E10 Waltham Forest 1.4 mi £520,000 151 sales
E11 Waltham Forest 2.5 mi £520,000 137 sales
E17 Waltham Forest 2.5 mi £530,000 58 sales
N81 Hackney 1.9 mi £550,000 66 sales
E9 Hackney 0.6 mi £590,000 57 sales
E20 Newham 1.3 mi £600,000 28 sales
N16 Hackney 1.8 mi £615,000 109 sales
E5 Hackney 0.8 mi £795,000 84 sales
E8 Hackney 1.4 mi £825,000 107 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 6.6 miles the school admitted from in 2024/25, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Daubeney Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Marsh Hill, 0.2 mi away, with 22.1 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 00:08, last 00:29.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Redwald Road0.1 mi6.05.05.0242
Daubeney Road0.1 mi5.85.54.9242
Redwald Road0.1 mi5.85.54.9242

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Daubeney Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around E5: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at E5 0EG, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Daubeney Primary School?

Daubeney Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in 2024/25 lived 6.6 miles away, per Hackney.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Daubeney Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 6.6 miles was enough in 2024/25. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Daubeney Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Hackney school's distance

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