Roach Vale Primary School
Primary · Colchester · CO4 3YN
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 23 May 2023
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177 pupils · 84% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 41.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 14.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.6% of pupils
- Website
- www.roachvaleprimary.co.uk/
- URN
- 114823
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.95 first-choice applications per place21 places offered · 20 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
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)
30 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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 23 May 2023: Good
- 10 January 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Parsons Heath Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery
- Hazelmere Junior School
- Colchester Academy
- Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery
- Friars Grove Primary School
- Unity Primary Academy
- St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Colchester