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Burrsville Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Sponsored academy
Craigfield Avenue, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 4HR · burrsvilleinfantacademy.org · 01255 425106
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2022
- 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
- 174
- 97% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 26.4%
- First language not English
- 3.4%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Reach2 Academy Trust
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 60 places were offered; 90% 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 | 60 | 59 | 1 | 90% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 54 | 52 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 53 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 58 | 1 | 93% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 64 | 1.1▲ | 91% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 16 November 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Burrsville Infant Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 15 Nov 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2016
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
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
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (49 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 49
- 27% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 73% who raised concerns
based on the 22% who had a child bullied