Montgomery Primary School, Colchester
Primary · Colchester · CO2 9QG
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 19 November 2019
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608 pupils · 90% of 672 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 17.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 15.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.4% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 114750
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.99 first-choice applications per place71 places offered · 70 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
86 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
76% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% moved to another state school · 11% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 4 March 2025: Improved significantly
- 19 November 2019: Good
- 22 November 2018: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.