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Leigh Beck Infant School and Nursery Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Sponsored academy
Point Road, Canvey Island SS8 7TD · leighbeck-inf.essex.sch.uk · 01268 682322
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2024
- 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
- 342
- 72 over 270 places · 127%
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 14.7%
- First language not English
- 2.9%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Northwick Park 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, 63 families put the school first and 74 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 | 74 | 63 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 70 | 66 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 67 | 65 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 76 | 75 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 61 | 61 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 21 March 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Leigh Beck Infant School and Nursery Academy was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 20 Mar 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Mar 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114824), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Mar 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Nov 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114824)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (36 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 36
- 12% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 58% who raised concerns
based on the 22% who had a child bullied