Grange Primary School

Community school·Primary school Wickford, Essex·SS12 0LR
Composite score
46.5
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#8,593
National rank
#920
In East of England
#244
In Essex
Top 58%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
59%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
82%
55 first choices, 45 places
First choices per place
1.22
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
113
any preference, for 45 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.27
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8120220.9820230.9520240.9520251.222026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Grange 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
301
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
4.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,070
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Grange Primary School

Grange Primary School is a primary school in Wickford, Essex, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 301 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 59% 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 fallen by 2.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Grange Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 55 first choices for 45 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 20.3 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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