Abbots Hall Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Stanford-le-Hope, Thurrock·SS17 7BW
Composite score
54.6
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National rank
#580
In East of England
#25
In Thurrock
Top 38%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
66%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
64%
90 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.50
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
240
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.32
00.511.52
1 per place
0.8220220.8420231.1020241.1820251.502026

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

Thurrock does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Abbots Hall Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
2–11
Pupils on roll
416
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,072
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Abbots Hall Primary School at a glance

Located in Stanford-le-Hope, Thurrock, Abbots Hall Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 416 pupils aged 2 to 11. 66% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 4.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 38% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Abbots Hall Primary School is oversubscribed: about 6 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 90 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 24.3 pupils per teacher. Abbots Hall 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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