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Ingrave Johnstone Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Primary · Brentwood · CM13 3NU

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 4 July 2024

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At a glance

210 pupils · 96% of 218 capacity

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
10% of pupils
English as additional language
5.1% of pupils
SEN support
10.2% of pupils
EHC plan
1.4% of pupils
Website
www.ingravejohnstoneprimaryschool.co.uk/
URN
115154

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.90 first-choice applications per place

29 places offered · 26 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

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)

32 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
72%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
13%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
109
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
108
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school72%
Median of its 12 closest peers70%
Essex average63.8%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Stalyhill Junior SchoolStalybridge · 163 miles awayGood65%
Holley Park AcademyWashington · 241 miles awayGood74%
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary AcademyWest Malling · 21 miles awayExpected standard81%
Millbrook Primary SchoolWigan · 186 miles awayGood55%
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, LowtonWarrington · 178 miles awayGood73%
Mitton Manor Primary SchoolTewkesbury · 110 miles awayGood57%
Willow Farm Primary SchoolNottingham · 113 miles awayStrong standard68%
The Manor Church of England Primary SchoolBristol · 121 miles awayExpected standard72%
Hughenden Primary SchoolHigh Wycombe · 48 miles awayGood64%
Cop Lane Church of England Primary School, PenworthamPreston · 196 miles awayGood66%
Woodfield Primary SchoolWigan · 184 miles awayOutstanding93%
Heighington Millfield Primary AcademyLincoln · 117 miles awayGood73%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
6.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
18.7%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
21.9
England 18.5

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

This school£5,537
Typical primary school£6,959

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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
9/10among the least deprived fifth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher34%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications14.4%18.1%
In managerial or professional work45.3%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways8%18.1%
Residents in very good health55.2%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier84.8%62.3%
Social housing3.4%17.1%
Privately rented11.7%20.5%
Detached houses41.4%22.9%
Flats10%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms44.2%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01021445 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,817 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£700,00045 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£522,000–£840,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (20)£901,000
Semi-detached (19)£560,000

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
2a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
6a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
2a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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