Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Essex
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry170 applications · 60 places offered · 63 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.8; Essex median median 2.4
- 2025 2.8; Essex median median 2.4
- 2024 2.7; Essex median median 2.4
- 2023 2.5; Essex median median 2.4
- 2022 2.4; Essex median median 2.4
- 2021 2.2; Essex median median 2.3
- 2020 2.3; Essex median median 2.4
- 2019 2.2; Essex median median 2.5
- 2018 2.3; Essex median median 2.5
- 2017 2.6; Essex median median 2.6
- 2016 2.3; Essex median median 2.8
- 2015 2.4; Essex median median 2.7
- 2014 2.3; Essex median median 2.8
- This school
- Essex median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 60 | 170 | 2.8 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2025 | 60 | 166 | 2.8 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 60 | 163 | 2.7 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2023 | 60 | 151 | 2.5 | 73 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2022 | 60 | 144 | 2.4 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2021 | 69 | 151 | 2.2 | 63 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 80 | 181 | 2.3 | 69 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2019 | 89 | 192 | 2.2 | 80 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2018 | 83 | 190 | 2.3 | 77 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 | 90 | 234 | 2.6 | 111 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2016 | 90 | 211 | 2.3 | 87 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 | 90 | 212 | 2.4 | 93 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2014 | 90 | 204 | 2.3 | 90 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Helen's Catholic Infant & Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.8applications per place
- 0.0 km · EssexRemains Good202378%met the SATs standard
- 20261.7applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · EssexOutstanding20233.6applications per place 93%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · EssexGood20242.4applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · EssexGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · EssexRemains Good20233.3applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 2.5 km · EssexRemains Good20242.4applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 20253.8applications per place 98%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 115307 · 881/5267
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 206 pupils · 173 on roll
- Free school meals
- 9.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Address
- Sawyers Hall Lane, St. Helens Rc Infant School, Brentwood, CM15 9BY
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources