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Baddow Hall Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Community school
New Road, Great Baddow, Chelmsford CM2 7QZ · baddowhallinfant.co.uk · 01245 471338
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 166
- 92% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Free school meals
- 9.6%
- First language not English
- 7.8%
- 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, 46 families put the school first and 56 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 | 56 | 46 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 60 | 47 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 43 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 56 | 0.9 | 93% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 51 | 0.9 | 92% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Baddow Hall Infant School on 4 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 4 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Mar 2008Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
96% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (57 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 96%
- Replies
- 57
- 35% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 21% who had a child bullied
based on 14 parents (25%) with SEND