Richard de Clare Community Academy
Primary · Halstead · CO9 2JT
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 15 March 2022
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370 pupils · 79% of 466 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 32.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 14.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 21.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.richarddeclare.com
- URN
- 143204
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.84 first-choice applications per place50 places offered · 42 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)
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)
82% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 12% 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
- 15 March 2022: Good
- 23 February 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 26 November 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
- 26 June 2019: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Holy Trinity Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Halstead
- The Ramsey Academy, Halstead
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Halstead
- Gosfield Community Primary School
- Colne Engaine Church of England Primary School
- St Giles' Church of England Primary School
- The Yellow House School
- Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery