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Little Parndon Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Park Mead, Harlow CM20 1PU · littleparndonacademy.org · 01279 425600
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 60%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Essex 63%, England 62%
- 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
- 352
- 84% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 37.5%
- First language not English
- 27.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Bmat Education
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 48 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 | 48 | 35 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 31 | 27 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 55 | 42 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 53 | 0.9 | 94% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 42 | 0.7 | 83% |
Results
In 2024/25, 60% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 6% the higher standard. Across Essex it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●60% | 62% | ||
| ●6% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Little Parndon Primary Academy was judged Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 7 June 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Requires improvement
- Inspected
- 7 Jun 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Requires improvement |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2017Good
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
73% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (49 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 73%
- Replies
- 49
- 12% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 57% who had a child bullied