How far do you need to live from a school in Tower Hamlets to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 14 Tower Hamlets schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.39 miles away; the tightest was Kobi Nazrul Primary School at 0.2 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Tower Hamlets schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Tower Hamlets schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Tower Hamlets publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 14 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

14schools with a published figure

0.39 mithe middle school's distance

13filled within a mile

The tightest is Kobi Nazrul Primary School at 0.2 miles in 2024/25; the most far-reaching, Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary School, admitted from 1.31 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Kobi Nazrul Primary School London	No current grade	0.2 mi	2024/25	95%
The Clara Grant Primary School London	No current grade	0.25 mi	2024/25	83%
Mowlem Primary School London	No current grade	0.3 mi	2024/25	106%
Bigland Green Primary School London	No current grade	0.31 mi	2024/25	99%
Bygrove Primary School London	Outstanding	0.32 mi	2024/25	105%
Cyril Jackson Primary School London	No current grade	0.32 mi	2024/25	93%
Mayflower Primary School London	No current grade	0.38 mi	2024/25	103%
Seven Mills Primary School London	Good	0.39 mi	2024/25	95%
Cayley Primary School London	No current grade	0.43 mi	2024/25	79%
Chisenhale Primary School London	Good	0.44 mi	2024/25	92%
Globe Primary School London	No current grade	0.47 mi	2024/25	96%
Olga Primary School London	No current grade	0.5 mi	2024/25	92%
Marner Primary School London	No current grade	0.55 mi	2024/25	91%
Mulberry Wood Wharf Primary School London	No current grade	1.31 mi	2024/25	44%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Tower Hamlets measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Tower Hamlets. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.