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Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Hawthorn Avenue, Colchester CO4 3JP · hazelmere-inf.essex.sch.uk · 01206 861836
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 156
- 87% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 21.2%
- First language not English
- 21.2%
- 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, 35 families put the school first and 36 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 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 39 | 37 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 53 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 44 | 44 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 33 | 31 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery on 3 June 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Mar 2024
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2024Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jun 2018Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Mar 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (12 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 12
- 7% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 83% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied