R J Mitchell Primary School
Primary · Hornchurch · RM12 5PP
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 24 March 2026 · report published 22 June 2026
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268 pupils · 92% of 291 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 28.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 23.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 27.9% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 131590
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.80 first-choice applications per place15 places offered · 12 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.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2012 entry) lived within 2.261 km (≈1.40 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
55 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)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 14% 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
- 24 March 2026: Needs attention
- 6 November 2024: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 4 May 2022: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 29 November 2016: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.