Graded inspection · May 2025 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
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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 entry54 applications · 26 places offered · 26 named it first
- 2026 2.1; Essex median median 2.4
- 2025 2.1; Essex median median 2.4
- 2024 2.0; Essex median median 2.4
- 2023 2.3; Essex median median 2.4
- 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 | 26 | 54 | 2.1 | 26 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 64 | 2.1 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 59 | 2.0 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 27 | 63 | 2.3 | 25 | 0.93 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25all three met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Essex median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | ||||
| 2023/24 | ||||
| 2022/23 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Luke's Park Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place
- 1.1 km · EssexGood20232.8applications per place
- 1.8 km · EssexGraded · no overall grade20241.8applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · Essex202667%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · EssexGraded · no overall grade20242.5applications per place
- 2.3 km · EssexOutstanding20232.7applications per place
- 2.9 km · EssexGood20232.6applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 3.2 km · EssexGood20242.4applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 3.7 km · EssexGood20242.3applications per place 63%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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 149066 · 881/2188
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 176 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Address
- Liberty Way, Runwell, Wickford, SS11 7LH
- Local authority
- Essex · Chelmsford
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources