Community school · Barking and Dagenham
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Sixth form
- Term dates set by the council
Term dates
Barking and Dagenham council sets the term dates for this school. See all Barking and Dagenham dates, taken from the council's own page.
2026/27
2027/28
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Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 423 families put this school as their first choice, and 359 places were offered. 321 of the families who put it first got a place (76%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 359 | 423 | 76% |
| September 2025 | 357 | 372 | 82% |
| September 2024 | 357 | 342 | 89% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
Before and after school
These clubs are registered with Ofsted at the school's postcode, so usually run on the school site:
- Manor Infants Before School, breakfast club. Ofsted report
- Manor Junior Extended School Provision. Ofsted report
Ask the club or the school about times, prices and places. More clubs nearby.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 31 January 2024. Overall: Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Sixth form
- Outstanding
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 2418 (capacity 2420)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 02039677030
- Address
- Sandringham Road, Barking, IG11 9AG
- Website
- barkingabbeyschool.co.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.