Larchwood Primary School
Primary · Brentwood · CM15 9NG
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 2 July 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
420 pupils · 100% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 19% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 9.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.2% of pupils
- Website
- www.larchwoodprimary.co.uk/
- URN
- 140828
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.80 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 48 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)
59 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 · 9% moved to another state school · 9% 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
- 21 September 2022: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 7 March 2017: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Helen's Catholic Infant & Nursery School
- St Helen's Catholic Junior School
- Grove House School
- Becket Keys Church of England Free School
- St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School, Brentwood
- Bentley St Paul's Church of England Primary School
- Shenfield St. Mary's Church of England Primary School
- St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, South Weald