Thaxted Primary School
Primary · Dunmow · CM6 2LW
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 8 May 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
228 pupils · 86% of 266 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 11.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.4% of pupils
- Website
- www.thaxted.essex.sch.uk
- URN
- 115288
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.81 first-choice applications per place16 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
36 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)
95% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% 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
- 8 May 2024: Good
- 2 February 2023: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 2 February 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
- Great Easton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Wimbish Primary Academy
- Great Sampford Community Primary School
- Debden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary Academy
- Radwinter Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Stebbing Primary School
- Helena Romanes School
- Great Dunmow Primary School