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Queensbridge Primary School

Community school in London, E8 4ET, taking ages 4 to 11, 398 on roll.

Outstanding Ofsted, Feb 2024
No limit Distance did not limit entry, 2024/25
95% Full
73.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

Distance did not limit entry in 2024/25: Hackney records the furthest offer at 350.91 miles, further than any school run. Distance is not what will decide a place here.

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

No circle to draw: 350.91 miles is not a distance limit.

Queensbridge Primary School: no circle, distance did not limit entry Sebright School: 0.55 miles, 2024/25, published by Hackney

This is not a catchment area. 350.91 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 Queensbridge 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.

With no distance limit the map shows the school and the postcode you check, and claims nothing about a boundary.

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 Queensbridge Primary School and Sebright School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Sebright School admitted from 0.55 miles in 2024/25, published by Hackney. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

Districts inside both distances mean nothing when one of the two did not limit entry: a figure beyond any school run would put half a county inside it. The map above still shows both schools, and the postcode checker answers for both.

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Drop Sebright School and go back to one school.

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 Queensbridge Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Gayhurst Community School Both in reach Primary 0.31 mi 2024/25 0.4 mi
Sebright School Both in reach Primary 0.55 mi 2024/25 0.4 mi
Hoxton Garden Primary Both in reach Primary 3.46 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
London Fields Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.65 mi 2024/25 0.5 mi
Shoreditch Park Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.49 mi 2024/25 0.7 mi
Mowlem Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.3 mi 2024/25 0.8 mi

The distance as a picture

Queensbridge Primary School catchment area map: the 350.91 mile admission distance, 2024/25
Drawn to scale from the published figure. 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 398 pupils in 420 places (95% full)
Local authorityHackney

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Outstanding, inspected 28 February 2024
Meeting the expected standard 73.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 73.0%
2023/24 76.0%
2022/23 68.0%

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

Who goes to Queensbridge Primary School

Girls and boys48.5% girls, 51.5% boys
English as an additional language41.0% of pupils
Free school meals45.7% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

Getting to Queensbridge Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Haggerston Station /Downham Rd, 0.2 mi away, with 7.4 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; the service runs through the night.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Middleton Road Haggerston125 yd6.04.85.0236
Middleton Road Haggerston144 yd6.05.24.9236
Queensbridge Road /Brownlow Rd0.1 mi6.04.85.0236

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

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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 Queensbridge Primary School?

Queensbridge 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 350.91 miles away, per Hackney.

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

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 350.91 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 Queensbridge 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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Admission distance published by Hackney. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.