Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in EssexSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 25 March 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 19 October 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry584 applications · 179 places offered · 184 named it first
- 2026 3.3; Essex median median 2.8
- 2025 3.2; Essex median median 2.7
- 2024 3.7; Essex median median 2.8
- 2023 3.2; Essex median median 2.7
- 2022 3.5; Essex median median 2.7
- 2021 3.7; Essex median median 2.6
- 2020 3.7; Essex median median 2.8
- 2019 4.1; Essex median median 2.7
- 2018 4.1; Essex median median 2.6
- 2017 3.5; Essex median median 2.7
- 2016 3.6; Essex median median 2.6
- 2015 3.2; Essex median median 2.5
- 2014 3.1; Essex median median 2.6
- This school
- Essex median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, 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 | 179 | 584 | 3.3 | 184 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2025 | 180 | 569 | 3.2 | 183 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2024 | 178 | 652 | 3.7 | 225 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2023 | 174 | 564 | 3.2 | 176 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2022 | 179 | 617 | 3.5 | 203 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2021 | 178 | 655 | 3.7 | 238 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2020 | 175 | 649 | 3.7 | 213 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2019 | 172 | 701 | 4.1 | 278 | 1.62 |
| Sep 2018 | 175 | 708 | 4.1 | 247 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2017 | 172 | 597 | 3.5 | 181 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2016 | 174 | 630 | 3.6 | 216 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2015 | 179 | 565 | 3.2 | 178 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2014 | 174 | 534 | 3.1 | 169 | 0.97 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 171 | 47.4 | 46% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 179 | 48.3 | 50% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 174 | 48.4 | 45% | 73% | +0.02 |
| 2022/23 | 171 | 44.4 | 41% | 64% | −0.24 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Debden Park High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.3applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Essex20262.9applications per place 54.9Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · EssexGood20222.6applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · Essex20262.3applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · EssexRemains Good20233.2applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · RedbridgeGood20231.4applications per place 41.3Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · Waltham ForestRemains Good20243.3applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · RedbridgeGood20232.9applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · Essex20260.9applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136555 · 881/4001
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,120 pupils · 1,046 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Debden Park High School (URN 131876)
- Address
- Willingale Road, Debden, Loughton, IG10 2BQ
- Local authority
- Essex · Epping Forest
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources