Grovelands Community Primary School
Primary · Hailsham · BN27 3UW
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 4 February 2020
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
694 pupils · 100% of 630 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 24.3% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.grovelands-school.co.uk/
- URN
- 151810
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.17 first-choice applications per place90 places offered · 105 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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.