de Vere Primary School
Primary · Halstead · CO9 3EA
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 3 July 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
203 pupils · 97% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 24.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.6% of pupils
- Website
- www.devere.essex.sch.uk
- URN
- 148139
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.87 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 26 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
23 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)
95% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% 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.
Nearby schools
- Hedingham School and Sixth Form
- Teaseldown School
- The Yellow House School
- St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Sible Hedingham
- St Giles' Church of England Primary School
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School, Great Yeldham
- St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Toppesfield
- Holy Trinity Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Halstead