St Leonard's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Southminster · CM0 7ES
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 30 April 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
258 pupils · 82% of 315 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.6% of pupils
- Website
- www.stleonardscofe.co.uk
- URN
- 140180
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.40 first-choice applications per place57 places offered · 23 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)
35 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)
67% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% moved to another state school · 24% 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, academy 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
- 30 April 2024: Good
- 19 April 2023: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 6 December 2022: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 23 September 2019: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 10 July 2018: Requires improvement
- 13 March 2018: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 13 July 2017: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 12 October 2016: Inadequate
- 21 April 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 2 February 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Burnham-on-Crouch
- Ormiston Rivers Academy
- Burnham-on-Crouch Primary School
- St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Tillingham
- Maylandsea Primary School
- Christchurch Church of England Primary School
- Canewdon Church of England Primary School
- St Cedd's Church of England Primary School