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Parkwood Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Melbourne Avenue, Chelmsford CM1 2DX · parkwood-academy.org · 01245 354605
Overview
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 66%
- 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
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 196
- 93% of 210 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 44.9%
- First language not English
- 26%
- 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, 19 families put the school first and 19 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 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 29 | 26 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 19 | 15 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 25 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 66% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 3% 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 | |||
| ▲66% | 62% | ||
| ▼3% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Parkwood Academy was judged Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 9 July 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Requires improvement
- Inspected
- 9 Jul 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Dec 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 115024), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Dec 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Oct 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115024)
What parents said
69% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (16 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 69%
- Replies
- 16
- 7% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 94% who raised concerns
based on the 50% who had a child bullied