Elsenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Bishop's Stortford · CM22 6DD
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Improved significantly”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 13 November 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
403 pupils · 96% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 9.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.4% of pupils
- Website
- www.elsenham.essex.sch.uk
- URN
- 115129
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.97 first-choice applications per place58 places offered · 56 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)
54 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)
98% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% 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
- 12 November 2024: Improved significantly
- 13 March 2019: Good
- 11 September 2018: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School
- Magna Carta Primary Academy
- Bentfield Primary School and Nursery
- Forest Hall School
- St Mary's CofE Foundation Primary School
- Birchanger Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Rickling Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Roseacres Primary School