Graded inspection · Mar 2024 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form 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 entry958 applications · 207 places offered · 374 named it first
- 2026 4.6; Thurrock median median 2.6
- 2025 5.6; Thurrock median median 2.4
- 2024 4.7; Thurrock median median 2.6
- 2023 5.6; Thurrock median median 2.2
- 2022 5.1; Thurrock median median 2.2
- 2021 4.9; Thurrock median median 2.1
- 2020 5.6; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2019 4.8; Thurrock median median 1.7
- 2018 5.7; Thurrock median median 1.8
- 2017 5.1; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2016 5.1; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2015 4.4; Thurrock median median 1.9
- 2014 4.1; 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 | 207 | 958 | 4.6 | 374 | 1.81 |
| Sep 2025 | 171 | 961 | 5.6 | 395 | 2.31 |
| Sep 2024 | 209 | 986 | 4.7 | 393 | 1.88 |
| Sep 2023 | 180 | 1,008 | 5.6 | 404 | 2.24 |
| Sep 2022 | 177 | 894 | 5.1 | 413 | 2.33 |
| Sep 2021 | 175 | 852 | 4.9 | 358 | 2.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 180 | 1,012 | 5.6 | 355 | 1.97 |
| Sep 2019 | 203 | 966 | 4.8 | 334 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2018 | 170 | 963 | 5.7 | 340 | 2.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 175 | 890 | 5.1 | 355 | 2.03 |
| Sep 2016 | 177 | 899 | 5.1 | 365 | 2.06 |
| Sep 2015 | 178 | 776 | 4.4 | 330 | 1.85 |
| Sep 2014 | 176 | 716 | 4.1 | 297 | 1.69 |
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.) | 216 | 56.5 | 66% | 84% | – |
| 2024/25 | 188 | 55.5 | 68% | 84% | – |
| 2023/24 | 219 | 61.1 | 75% | 89% | +1.04 |
| 2022/23 | 188 | 56.6 | 69% | 84% | +0.53 |
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
- Harris Academy Chafford HundredThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.6applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · ThurrockGood20233.3applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · ThurrockRemains Good20242.5applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · ThurrockRemains Good20231.8applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · ThurrockOutstanding20242.6applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Thurrock20262.7applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Thurrock20262.3applications per place 48.1Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · ThurrockRequires improvement20241.6applications per place 37.6Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · ThurrockGood20233.7applications per place 42.0Attainment 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
- 137549 · 883/4394
- Trust
- Harris Federation
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,200 pupils · 1,435 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 October 2011
- Replaced
- Chafford Hundred Campus Business and Enterprise College (URN 132083)
- Address
- Mayflower Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays, RM16 6SA
- Local authority
- Thurrock
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources