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Oakwood Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Windsor Avenue, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 2AH · 01255 421168
On the mapSearch near CO15 2AH
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 299
- 83% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 44.6%
- First language not English
- 18.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Essex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 59 families put the school first and 63 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 63 | 59 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 47 | 45 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 67 | 65 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 64 | 61 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 68 | 55 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Oakwood Infant and Nursery School on 12 May 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Needs attention
- Inspected
- 12 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Needs attention |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Needs attention |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2019Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Met Nov 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Jul 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (28 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 28
- 9% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 86% who raised concerns
based on the 50% who had a child bullied