Maylandsea Primary School
Primary · Chelmsford · CM3 6AD
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 20 June 2024
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217 pupils · 100% of 218 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 12% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3% of pupils
- URN
- 142254
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.80 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 54 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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)
46 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)
80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 10% 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
- 16 January 2019: Good
- 10 July 2018: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Christchurch Church of England Primary School
- St Leonard's Church of England Primary School
- Ormiston Rivers Academy
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Burnham-on-Crouch
- Maldon Primary School
- Burnham-on-Crouch Primary School
- Canewdon Church of England Primary School
- Wentworth Primary School