How far do you need to live from a school in Waltham Forest to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 25 Waltham Forest schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.47 miles away; the tightest was Greenleaf Primary School at 0.24 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Waltham Forest publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 25 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

25schools with a published figure

0.47 mithe middle school's distance

22filled within a mile

The tightest is Greenleaf Primary School at 0.24 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, Henry Maynard Primary School, admitted from 1.59 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Greenleaf Primary School London	Good	0.24 mi	varies	98%
Handsworth Primary School London	Good	0.27 mi	varies	100%
Coppermill Primary School London	No current grade	0.28 mi	varies	93%
Roger Ascham Primary School London	No current grade	0.29 mi	varies	87%
The Jenny Hammond Primary School London	No current grade	0.3 mi	varies	92%
Barn Croft Primary School London	No current grade	0.31 mi	varies	81%
Riverley Primary School London	No current grade	0.33 mi	varies	97%
St Mary's Catholic Primary School London	Good	0.35 mi	varies	100%
St Saviour's Church of England Primary School London	Outstanding	0.35 mi	varies	76%
Gwyn Jones Primary School London	No current grade	0.37 mi	varies	96%
The Winns Primary School London	No current grade	0.38 mi	varies	103%
South Grove Primary School London	No current grade	0.39 mi	varies	115%
Stoneydown Park School London	No current grade	0.47 mi	varies	100%
Willow Brook Primary School Academy London	No current grade	0.48 mi	varies	98%
Ainslie Wood Primary School London	Good	0.51 mi	varies	107%
Chase Lane Primary School London	No current grade	0.52 mi	varies	100%
Barclay Primary School London	No current grade	0.55 mi	varies	101%
Davies Lane Primary School London	Outstanding	0.56 mi	varies	110%
Oakhill Primary School Woodford Green	No current grade	0.61 mi	varies	99%
Woodford Green Primary School Woodford Green	No current grade	0.75 mi	varies	90%
Parkside Primary School Chingford	No current grade	0.9 mi	varies	107%
Whitehall Primary School London	No current grade	0.97 mi	varies	94%
Selwyn Primary School London	Outstanding	1.0 mi	varies	106%
Yardley Primary School London	Outstanding	1.52 mi	varies	108%
Henry Maynard Primary School London	Good	1.59 mi	varies	89%

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 Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest. 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.