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Holt Farm Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Ashingdon Road, Rochford SS4 1RS · holtfarm-inf.essex.sch.uk · 01702 544058
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 211
- 78% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 28%
- First language not English
- 2.8%
- 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, 42 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 | 42 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 65 | 61 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 68 | 47 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 61 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 64 | 60 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 14 March 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Holt Farm Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 13 Mar 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jan 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Jan 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Sept 2010Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (29 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 29
- 15% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 14% who had a child bullied