Collingwood Primary School

Foundation school·Primary school CHELMSFORD, Essex·CM3 5YJ
Composite score
50.3
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#7,148
National rank
#762
In East of England
#215
In Essex
Top 48%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
8%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 10/02/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Expected standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
97%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
79
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8220220.9720230.8720240.9120251.032026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Collingwood Primary School yet. Essex does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
227
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
17.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
0.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,471
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Collingwood Primary School at a glance

Located in CHELMSFORD, Essex, Collingwood Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 227 pupils aged 4 to 11. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Collingwood Primary School is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. Collingwood Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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