Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Thurrock
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 | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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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 entry640 applications · 236 places offered · 288 named it first
- 2026 2.7; Thurrock median median 2.6
- 2025 2.6; Thurrock median median 2.4
- 2024 2.6; Thurrock median median 2.6
- 2023 3.3; Thurrock median median 2.2
- 2022 3.1; Thurrock median median 2.2
- 2021 3.1; Thurrock median median 2.1
- 2020 3.6; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2019 3.5; Thurrock median median 1.7
- 2018 2.4; Thurrock median median 1.8
- 2017 3.4; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2016 3.2; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2015 3.2; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2014 2.7; Thurrock median median 1.7
- This school
- Thurrock 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 | 236 | 640 | 2.7 | 288 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2025 | 236 | 610 | 2.6 | 242 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 238 | 626 | 2.6 | 256 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2023 | 238 | 785 | 3.3 | 304 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2022 | 239 | 735 | 3.1 | 308 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2021 | 237 | 744 | 3.1 | 333 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2020 | 260 | 934 | 3.6 | 392 | 1.51 |
| Sep 2019 | 257 | 886 | 3.5 | 374 | 1.46 |
| Sep 2018 | 370 | 888 | 2.4 | 368 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2017 | 221 | 742 | 3.4 | 318 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2016 | 228 | 736 | 3.2 | 255 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2015 | 229 | 724 | 3.2 | 283 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2014 | 230 | 624 | 2.7 | 226 | 0.98 |
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.) | 235 | 42.9 | 41% | 63% | – |
| 2024/25 | 256 | 43.2 | 41% | 64% | – |
| 2023/24 | 252 | 42.5 | 37% | 59% | −0.34 |
| 2022/23 | 343 | 43.9 | 45% | 68% | −0.17 |
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
- St Clere's SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · ThurrockRequires improvement20232.6applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · ThurrockSerious weaknesses Inadequate20221.6applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · ThurrockGood20233.7applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · ThurrockStandards maintained20242.1applications per place 50.0Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · Thurrock20262.7applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · EssexRemains Good20233.8applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · ThurrockRemains Good20242.5applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · ThurrockRemains Good20231.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 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
- 137456 · 883/5440
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,460 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- St Clere's School (URN 115356)
- Address
- Butts Lane, Stanford-le-Hope, SS17 0NW
- Local authority
- Thurrock
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources