Thameside Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Grays, Thurrock·RM17 6EF
Composite score
36.2
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#12,100
National rank
#1330
In East of England
#38
In Thurrock
Top 82%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
45%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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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
100%
80 first choices, 86 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
157
any preference, for 86 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.14
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7520220.8220230.6820240.7920250.932026

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

Every child who put Thameside Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
856
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
50.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,212
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Thameside Primary School

Thameside Primary School is a primary school in Grays, Thurrock, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 856 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 45% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 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 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Thameside Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 86 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 21.4 pupils per teacher. Thameside 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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