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Monkwick Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
School Road, Monkwick, Colchester CO2 8NN · monkwick-inf.essex.sch.uk · 01206 573849
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 149
- 73% of 204 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 31%
- First language not English
- 17.4%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- The Sigma 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, 34 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 | 34 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 38 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 52 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 29 | 27 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 59 | 53 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 5 March 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Monkwick Infant and Nursery School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 4 Mar 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jun 2019Good
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 Jan 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Jan 2011Good
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 (18 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 18
- 11% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 61% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied